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Metamorphosis In Brooklyn
One of the central themes in Brooklyn is Eilis Lacey’s need for a home. While Eilis is living in Brooklyn she experiences a lot of homesickness. In the beginning no matter how badly she tried to be resettled and make Brooklyn her new home she wasn’t able to. However, the longer she lives in Brooklyn she begins experiences the loud and lively homes of her boarding house, and also togetherness of Tony’s family, this comes into comparison with her mother’s quiet home, that now begins to feel cold, distance and uninviting to her. Eilis uses Brooklyn as an opportunity to renew herself. Being with Tony, working at Bartoccis and going to night school, Eilis starts to put her roots down in Brooklyn. After Rose dies Eilis is struck with the fact that
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