Narrated from the point of view of a boy on the verge of adolescence, the story begins with a description of his exceedingly drab street. “An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground. The other houses of the street conscious of decent lives within them gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces” (251). By using adjectives like “uninhabited,” “blind,” “detached,” and “imperturbable” feelings of isolation instantly emerge in our minds because of Joyce’s depressing word choice. From the start, the boy is already alienated; the street he lives on is “blind” which means a street with a dead end. Furthermore, the protagonist personifies the houses by calling them “brown imperturbable faces.” His detached, uninhabited house is excluded from the other calm, normal houses causing him to feel
Narrated from the point of view of a boy on the verge of adolescence, the story begins with a description of his exceedingly drab street. “An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground. The other houses of the street conscious of decent lives within them gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces” (251). By using adjectives like “uninhabited,” “blind,” “detached,” and “imperturbable” feelings of isolation instantly emerge in our minds because of Joyce’s depressing word choice. From the start, the boy is already alienated; the street he lives on is “blind” which means a street with a dead end. Furthermore, the protagonist personifies the houses by calling them “brown imperturbable faces.” His detached, uninhabited house is excluded from the other calm, normal houses causing him to feel