Dubliners

Arabella was observed on 4/5/18 by Kylynn Sanchez, the School Social Worker, during her 6th period English class. The class began with the students instructed to write down vocabulary terms off the board, as a way to prepare for the upcoming vocabulary quiz. Arabella arrived to class one minute late, dressed comfortably in sweatpants and a sweatshirt. She immediately took a smart tablet out of her backpack and engaged a discussion with a friend from across the room. Mr. Kingsley, Arabella’s…

In the prose by James Joyce “The Dead” he shows the congressional progression of Gabriel, positively revealing his psychological self. Joyce expresses Gabriel’s character by the use of imagery and euphemism throughout the extent of the prose’s excerpt. The use of imagery is expressed when stated throughout the whole body of work. “ one boot stood upright” shows the visualization on how Gabriel was standing with his perception in place, proper and conscious throughout. “ A petite coat string…

Araby (An analysis on the changes the boy goes through in Araby) James Joyce 's Araby is a well known story about a boy who wants to impress the girl he has been obsessing over for a while now. Throughout this story the boy begins to change and have mixed emotions. The boy has mixed emotions within this story and begins to have feeling for this girl. The boy changes in Araby by not only gaining some maturity, but his emotions for his friends sister deepens as well, and he comes to a…

“Eveline’s Visitant” by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and “The Dead” by James Joyce are both short stories that show strong examples of a “haunting”. A haunting is something or someone from a past time that reoccurs in appearance or in thought, usually bad or regrettable. Although both stories represent a haunting throughout the story, each author efficiently portrays two separate types of a haunting: one being a ghost, and one being a past. Braddon’s short story “Eveline’s Visitant” tells a tale of…

James Joyce’s short story, “Eveline,” is about a woman who is faced with a difficult decision: to leave her mundane life behind and travel to Buenos Ayres with her mysterious boyfriend, or stay to fulfil the obligation of looking after her family. Throughout the story, Eveline reflects on her experiences from her past to make the final decision. In the end, Eveline’s trust issues caused her to be too fearful of the unknown, resulting in her final decision to stay. Eveline grew up in an abusive…

In Anton Chekhov's 1904 play The Cherry Orchard, a Russian family who is used to a life of riches begin to experience the hardships of poverty. Due to an extreme amount of carelessness and selfishness, the mother of the estate Lyubov Andreevna Ranvskaya loses the funds that have been allowing her to keep her family in a comfortable position financially. Throughout the play, Chekhov uses many items to represent symbolism, such as the cherry orchard itself to represent the golden age of…

The Disappointment of Young Love First love can make one see themselves in a different light. Either they can see all things beautiful or they’re seeing things black and white. A boy from Ireland whose coming of age is infatuated with a girl. To charm her, he wants to bring her back a present from a bazaar she wanted to attend. In “Araby” by James Joyce the protagonist learns through the experience of true love about the disappointments in life. The narrator starts the story off by describing…

Throughout his short story “A Little Cloud,” James Joyce considers the ramifications of remaining sedentary in Dublin through his characters Little Chandler and Ignatius Gallaher. That Little Chandler and Gallaher seem so antithetical, despite their proximity and similar upbringings, invites the reader to question whether Joyce intends to insinuate that success is only possible outside of Dublin, and that ambition and Celtic nationalism are incongruous. Having left Ireland at twenty years old,…

“Everything Stuck to Him” Literary Analysis “Everything Stuck to Him” is a short story in which Raymond Carver, the author, presents a father telling his daughter a story of him and his wife when the daughter was a baby. The symbolism help expand the story in many ways, such having a change between the seasons; showing a symbolism of boyhood to manhood. Carver uses indirect characterizations to add to the development of the piece. Not only that, but the story is a frame story, a story within a…

Recently opened in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Understanding Human Loneliness, analyzes the discrepancy between internal isolation and external being. Located in an empty warehouse, Understanding Human Loneliness features only two works: Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe by Edouard Manet and Triptych, Left Panel by Paula Rego. The two works are vastly different – Rego’s piece features bright colors and jarring imagery while Manet’s piece employs subdued colors and less narrative – but evoke a…