She always makes a decisive decision about everything in her life, and she usually thinks thoroughly before committing a plan. According to the story, she runs her boarding house cunningly and firmly. She also knows when she needs to give a credit or to act stern with different kinds of customer. Another act that define her character is her reaction to her daughter’s inappropriate relationship. “She dealt with the moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat,” was how she deals with the problems. We can comprehend how decisive and firm she is. She is a role model for me. Her characteristics are such a very necessary and essential for those who wish to succeed in life. If I can be a determined person like she is, my goal in life would be much easier to achieve.
3. Do you think Mr. Doran love Mooney? Why so? How does he feel when he is asked to marry Polly?
= In my opinion, Mr. Doran does not love Mooney. Imagine being together happily with her, he thinks he once loved her. However, his delirium is the only reason that explain anything. In his perspective, he thinks that it is her fault as well as his. She plays an important role which cause this immoral incidence. It takes two to tango. He feels responsible. Sinful and unethical act has been done, so he acknowledges how evil his action is. He wants to compensate his bad behave, and he additionally wants to take responsibility by correcting his wrongdoing, which is …show more content…
She is like her mother, a determined young girl. If she aims anything, her plan and her decision will be made thoroughly and decisively through her mind. In the last page, we know that she did not feel regret of what had happened between her and Mr. Doran. Her face is described as a face without any perturbation, so she may feel better now. Her action tells the same story. She waits patiently, almost cheerfully in her room. All of these indicate that she is waiting for an expected and specific thing from Mr. Doran and Mrs. Mooney’s meeting. The thing is that she expects him to come back and ask her to marry. It is all her plans from the beginning. In conclusion, this expected marriage is a series of her well-organized plan in order to marry him.
5. It can be said that Joyce’s “The Boarding House” show a “peculiar” human relationship, especially between mother and daughter, or a man and a woman. Describe one of these and give examples to support your answers.
= It is right about James Joyce style of writing. In her work, “The Boarding House” is appears to be a particular relationship between a man and woman. In this story, the relationship of Polly and Doran is unique because of their motives. In an ordinary marriage, people do love each other, so they marry one another. However, Mr. Doran does not love Polly. Nevertheless, he decides to marry her because of his immoral action. On the contrary, Polly