Joyce Carol Oates

In the short story “The Dead,” James Joyce conveys an epiphany in a character named Gabriel who realizes his relationship is not what he believed. As the Morkan’s annual dance comes to an end, Gabriel’s wife, Gretta begins to act differently as she hears a familiar song sung by Bartell D'Arcy. Gabriel “trembling now with annoyance” as he wonders why she seems “so abstracted.” As the story progresses, Gretta confesses that she is “thinking about that song, The Lass of Aughrim.” This song reminds…

In James Joyce’s Dubliners, readers can get a brief look into the world of Ireland at the turn of the century. In his stories, Joyce brings to light some of the struggles and disappointments that many of the Irish faced in their daily lives. Joyce’s stories are marked by epiphanies, specifically ones where the character realizes the absence of the divine opposed to the recognition of it. Examples of this can be found in “Araby” and “Eveline” in the way that both main characters undergo the…

“hates his country and is sick of it” (Joyce 165). You would think that someone who claims so passionately to be sick of his country would decide to leave the country and seek happiness and a life somewhere else, but in the spirit of paralysis he dec stays put deciding to remain idle numb, and paralyzed in Ireland. He wants to leave but cannot act on it, which is a very common theme throughout this story and as we can see the entire work of Dubliners. Joyce also included a story within a story…

religious influence. He watches the girl frequently, describing the experience in sentences such as “When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped” (Joyce 87) which shows how much he truly cares about the girl, although he doesn’t actually know her. “What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening” (Joyce 88) is how the boy describes his feelings at the opportunity to get the girl a gift, and take a step towards adulthood. He is excited, thinking that…

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…

England’s goal was that “the colonial space must be transformed sufficiently so as to no longer appear to be foreign to the imperial eye”(Decolonization 226). Through the female characters of Joyce and Bowen we are able to see the struggle the Irish people had to get their voices heard. In a country where the majority of upper class people had economic ties to England, it was nearly impossible to convince them that the structure was wrong. The…

James Joyce writes his stories about the family in a way that reflects the early twentieth-century family and its effects on an individual within a family. Family is the single most important human need for happiness in this life. The concept of family holds importance because it is through the influence of a family that an individual comes to know the world around him/her. The family is the vehicle in which most individuals first develop their character in life. James Joyce’s idea of the family…

Somber, cheerless, regressive; typical personalities of rural Irish. In“Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics”, Nancy Scheper- Hughes, discovered a great amount of revelations. From questioning mental illness to making connections in human behavior, Scheper- Hughes’ discoveries of rural Irish were controversial to say the least. While some of her discoveries were easy to fathom, others such as the similarities in personalities were not. Due to the fact that I was raised in a diverse and…

The film started with Antonio Ricci being offered a posting advertising bills job but cannot really have this job without having a bicycle. That being so, Maria Ricci, his wife, pawned their bed sheets in exchange for Antonio’s bicycle. Afterwards, Maria had to go visit someone. Antonio finds out that it is a fortune teller and had his fate predicted. On the first day of his work, his bicycle got stolen by a young man. He tries to catch the culprit, however, was unable to do so. He reported the…