Dubliners

The boarding house is one short story of the Dubliners collection, which was eventually published in 1914. In total there were 15 short stories, written by James Joyce. The stories are "epiphanies". A word used by Joyce to describe the sudden consciousness of the soul of something. A boarding house is a place where lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for longer periods. James Joyce writes in the stream of consciousness. This means that he writes down the thoughts…

The Dubliners Dilemma, a one-man-show devised and performed by Declan Gorman. James Joyce’s “Dubliners” was a long time in finding a publisher. An early potential publisher had been one Grant Richards. He was nervous about publishing because he feared it would open him and his firm, given the scandalous content of some of the stories, to prosecution by the powers that be. However about eight years after initially rejecting it, Grant Richards did agree to publish it in 1914. Adaptations of…

to mortgage much property in his business matters and his career declined as his alcohol consumption increased. John’s state of employment exemplified the horrible economic conditions of the 1890s and moreover the conditions reflected in James’s Dubliners. Dublin’s economic standpoint was deteriorating and according to William Blacker, “employment of a proper population [was of] a stronger case of public necessity that ever has been made out [to be]” (40). Therefore it seems logical that Joyce…

Introduction: Second-generation Irish migrants in post-WWII England took up a variety of noteworthy hybrid-identities. This particular study of displacement is significant in the context of WWII, which produced twenty-seven million displaced persons and furthermore, is relevant in a present day context because of the continually increasing number of refugees worldwide. This essay compares the way that the two popular music bands made up of second-generation Irish migrants, The Pogues and The…

Fearing the Leap James Joyce’s “Eveline” is a short story depicting a young woman with a chance for new life and a glimmering future. The story is dark and dreary as it unfolds itself, drifting between memories and current time spinning around the mind of young Eveline, who longs for a world that she will not let herself be a part of. In “Eveline,” by James Joyce, though the character of Eveline wishes to escape the life she’s living, she is bound tightly by her abusive relationship with…

#1 In the short story “Eveline” by James Joyce, the first paragraph helps to introduce the theme of not taking the opportunities presented and letting life just go on without enjoying it. In the short story, it states “She was tired.” because she was living her life as she always had; without any real excitement. Instead of getting ready to leave to go somewhere more enjoyable, she was sitting there “watching the evening invade the avenue.” She was doing what she always has:…

In many short stories, the main characters make a startling discovery about themselves. This happens in the short story, “Araby,” which tells the story of a young boy and his infatuation with his friend’s sister. The story is told by the boy’s older self, who makes a discovery about himself that leaves him utterly devastated. In the short story, “Araby,” the speaker comes to the realization that his first love was based on vanity and displays this revelation to the reader by using a bleak and…

The short stories Desiree’s baby by Kate Chopin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Kurt Vonnegut, Two Kinds by Amy Tan and Eveline by James Joyce all share a similar concept of an unfortunate and serious tone. This is shown in the text through the theme of family conflict caused by greed and pressure. The short stories are connected through a similar unfortunate and serious tone and theme of greed causing conflict in the family. In Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin, Armand chooses to protect…

Response Paper on James Joyce’s “Araby” Something interesting about “Araby”, by James Joyce, is that it usually takes the reader on an inward journey, where what is not said is usually more important than what is said directly. In this reading, the writer plays with the words turning this story into a metaphor almost in its entirety. As the story is written literally, this story would deal with a child who lives in a monotonous environment and embarks on a trip to buy a gift that promised to his…

The story of "Excerpts from Eve's Dairy" starts off with Eve entering the world. She did not know if yesterday even existed, if their was a yesterday. Eve thought she started off as an experiment to the world and nothing more. Eve also described things or objects in a very different way, then we do today. She described objects like she have never seem that object before, which she did see them for the first time. One part that I found funny was when she was talking about the moon sliding down,…