Caulfield’s childhood is an identical match to that of J.D. Salinger’s. Salinger had a deep love and fascination with young children‚ especially young women. In the 1970s‚ Salinger maintained a close connection with an eighteen year-old girl‚ Joyce Maynard‚ who eventually moved in with the author. J.D. Salinger continued to have many relations with younger women‚ much like this one. His fascination with young women is reflected in Holden‚ who has a similar mind-set. Even as a seventeen year-old
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and creativity within the human mind and the external fire that has allowed for humans to advance. Fire has been powering human advancement and invention for millennia‚ a source of energy for the furnace of mankind. In James Joyce’s novel Dubliners‚ Joyce incorporates fire and flames; however Joyce’s use of fire is not to shed light on the jovial atmosphere of Dublin. Rather Joyce’s pervasive use of flame in a minor state and its noticeable absence‚ serves to exemplify the decaying nature of Dublin
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The innocence of a child slowly deteriorates as they develop into an adult. The narrator in the short story Araby loses his innocence on his voyage to a bazaar (Araby) in hopes to impress a girl. In Araby‚ James Joyce develops the narrator through the trip to Araby where the young boy is exposed to the realities of adulthood. The narrator in Araby is an older man reminiscing back to his childhood. He recollects playing in the streets with his friend Mangan and more specifically seeing Mangan’s
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"Epiphany" refers to a showing-forth‚ a manifestation. For Joyce‚ however‚ it means a sudden revelation of the ¡°whatness of a thing¡±. Joyce’s tales about Dublin portray impotence‚ frustration and death. Their meaning is provided not so much by plot but by the epiphanies. Aiming either to illustrate an instant of self-realization in the characters themselves‚ or to raise the trivial existence of his characters to a level of conscious significance for the reader. The figures inside the story whom
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Cited: Joyce‚ James. "Araby". 1914. Published in: Literature An Introduction to Fiction‚ Poetry‚ and Drama‚ Ninth Edition. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. Copyright 2005. Pearson Longman. New York‚ Boston‚ San Francisco‚ London‚ Toronto‚ Sydney‚ Tokyo‚ Singapore
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The brief but complex stories of "Araby" by James Joyce and‚ "A&P by John Updike focuses on character traits rather than on plot to reveal the ironies that inherent self deception. The theme for both Sammy from "A&P" and the narrator from "Araby" is the transition from childhood to adulthood‚ a process that everyone experiences in one’s own way and time. The transformation that both characters make from children to adults includes unrealistic expectations of women‚ focusing upon one girl in particular
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“Margaret C. Anderson’s Little Review” Sophia Estante and Lorrie Moore (Mentor)‚ English This research looks at the work of Margaret C. Anderson‚ the editor of the Little Review. The review published first works by Sherwood Anderson‚ James Joyce‚ Wyndham Lewis‚ and Ezra Pound. This research draws upon mostly primary sources including memoirs‚ published letters‚ and a complete collection of the Little Review. Most prior research on Anderson focuses on her connection to the famous writers and personalities
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the story as Mangan’s sister. However‚ the young boy soon turns his innocent love and curiosity into a much more intense desire‚ transforming this female and his journey to the bazaar into something much more intense and lustful. From the beginning‚ Joyce paints a picture of the neighborhood in which the boy lives as very dark and cold. Even the rooms within his house are described as unfriendly‚ "Air‚ musty from having long been enclosed‚ hung in all the rooms‚ and the waste room behind the kitchen
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James Joyce: Symbols of Religion in his short story “Araby” Alongside the dawn of the twentieth century appeared an author by the name of James Joyce. Joyce introduced the idea that language can be manipulated and transformed into a new original meaning. “Some critics considered the work a masterpiece‚ though many readers found it incomprehensible” (The Literature 1). Joyce’s stories were not welcomed with open‚ inviting arms; instead they were undesired by publishers and his books were immensely
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"Araby" is a bit of an antiquity because it is so far removed from our own modern culture‚ where we don’t experience the same climate of religious oppression nor do we inhabit the same traditional world where strict gender distinctions are made. And if false piety exists‚ most people today don’t care about it. Therefore‚ the story loses much of its relevance to contemporary readers. Gay and Lesbian theory is a great way to bring "Araby" into the 21st century. Here’s the pitch: the boy is
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