How did Different People Influence Eilis’ return to Brooklyn
In the book Brooklyn By Colm Toibin Eilis, the character that this story focusses on, returned to her home of Ireland to support her mother after the death of her sister Rose. Her mother and friends expected that she would be staying in Ireland but instead she decided to go home to Brooklyn because she was influenced by the people in her life such as her husband Tony. She was also influenced to return because of her job opportunities at Bartoccis and possibly with Tony and his brothers company. lastly because of her sister Rose, who had done so much for her to get her a new life in America, while she was possibly dying.
The love of Eilis’ life Tony, is a large reason that Eilis decided …show more content…
Eilis was willing to take unpaid leave from work to visit her family but she planned to come back in the first place. “The Bartoccis, Father Flood said, could offer her one month’s unpaid leave, the date to be arranged with Miss Fortini” (Toibin 203) Eilis accepts this and plans to return to Brooklyn after a month back home in Ireland. She also believed that she could get a job working for Tony’s company. “She wondered, as she came to the end of day’s work at Davis’s, if maybe she could do the bookkeeping for the company that tony was going to set up with his brothers.” (Toibin 228) Eilis wants to work for Tony because she doesn’t just want to be a stay at home mom, and this could at least keep them …show more content…
Rose is the reason that Eilis goes to Brooklyn in the first place, she arranges with Father Flood to get Eilis a job and living arrangements while she is in Brooklyn. “And then it occurred to her that she was already feeling that she would need to remember this room, her sister, this scene, as though from a distance. In the silence that had lingered, she realized, it had somehow been tacitly arranged that Eilis would go to America. Father Flood, she believed, had been invited to the house because Rose knew that he could arrange it.” (Toibin 32) Rose could have gone to America and gotten a new life but instead she decided to let Eilis get that chance. Eilis could not bear to stay in Ireland without her sister there, because everywhere she goes she is flooded with memories whereas in Brooklyn she has no memories of her. “She stood at Rose’s grave and tried to pray or whisper something. She felt sad, she thought, and maybe that was enough—to come here and let Rose’s spirit know how much she was missed. But she could not cry or say anything.” (Toibin 251) she was so distraught that she could not even speak, and she could not bear to be home without her sister, in Brooklyn she had escapes from this issue but at home she had none. Rose had given up everything for Eilis, she could have gone to Brooklyn herself but instead she sent Eilis, and Eilis did not want to throw that all away. “Eilis wanted to
In the book Brooklyn By Colm Toibin Eilis, the character that this story focusses on, returned to her home of Ireland to support her mother after the death of her sister Rose. Her mother and friends expected that she would be staying in Ireland but instead she decided to go home to Brooklyn because she was influenced by the people in her life such as her husband Tony. She was also influenced to return because of her job opportunities at Bartoccis and possibly with Tony and his brothers company. lastly because of her sister Rose, who had done so much for her to get her a new life in America, while she was possibly dying.
The love of Eilis’ life Tony, is a large reason that Eilis decided …show more content…
Eilis was willing to take unpaid leave from work to visit her family but she planned to come back in the first place. “The Bartoccis, Father Flood said, could offer her one month’s unpaid leave, the date to be arranged with Miss Fortini” (Toibin 203) Eilis accepts this and plans to return to Brooklyn after a month back home in Ireland. She also believed that she could get a job working for Tony’s company. “She wondered, as she came to the end of day’s work at Davis’s, if maybe she could do the bookkeeping for the company that tony was going to set up with his brothers.” (Toibin 228) Eilis wants to work for Tony because she doesn’t just want to be a stay at home mom, and this could at least keep them …show more content…
Rose is the reason that Eilis goes to Brooklyn in the first place, she arranges with Father Flood to get Eilis a job and living arrangements while she is in Brooklyn. “And then it occurred to her that she was already feeling that she would need to remember this room, her sister, this scene, as though from a distance. In the silence that had lingered, she realized, it had somehow been tacitly arranged that Eilis would go to America. Father Flood, she believed, had been invited to the house because Rose knew that he could arrange it.” (Toibin 32) Rose could have gone to America and gotten a new life but instead she decided to let Eilis get that chance. Eilis could not bear to stay in Ireland without her sister there, because everywhere she goes she is flooded with memories whereas in Brooklyn she has no memories of her. “She stood at Rose’s grave and tried to pray or whisper something. She felt sad, she thought, and maybe that was enough—to come here and let Rose’s spirit know how much she was missed. But she could not cry or say anything.” (Toibin 251) she was so distraught that she could not even speak, and she could not bear to be home without her sister, in Brooklyn she had escapes from this issue but at home she had none. Rose had given up everything for Eilis, she could have gone to Brooklyn herself but instead she sent Eilis, and Eilis did not want to throw that all away. “Eilis wanted to