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    Eveline 1. CHARACTERS Eveline is the central character in the story‚ who is a nineteen year-old girl planning to escape her mixed up life by leaving Dublin with her fiancé to go to Buenos Aires. In the story‚ her father plays an abusive and cruel man who threatens to beat her and takes all of her money; however Eveline still cares for him and her siblings. *Frank is Eveline’s fiancé‚ and a sailor‚ who wants her to run away with him to Buenos Aires. A smaller role in the story is Eveline’s dead

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    James Joyce reveals in “The Dead” a number of inner conflicts in the character of Gabriel. He makes it clear to the reader of Gabriel’s challenges of man v. self through techniques such as the motif of time and symbolism. The number uses the motif of time to describe Gabriel’s inner character. Joyce mentions how Gabriel has a feeling of not being as sympathetic as what he thinks he should be. “He wondered at his riot of emotions of an hour before‚” shows how Gabriel reflects on who he is and who

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    The story “Araby” by James Joyce is about a young catholic boy who lives in a religious town and goes to a religious school. He had really no exposure to women or anything else. Then he saw his friend’s sister that lives across from him. He started to have feelings toward her. The boy is starting to go through puberty and he expresses his sexual desires towards the girl. He is having a hard time to deny it because of his religion. He feels that it is a sin. Joyce connects paragraph five and six to

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    The central character is Mrs. Mooney who runs the boarding house. She has had an unhappy marriage and it made her as sharp as an axe. When she gets rid of her husband she opens a boarding house. She has a son‚ Jack‚ who is "a hard case". She also has a daughter‚ Polly‚ a slim girl of nineteen who resembles a "perverse little Madonna." Mrs. Mooney is concerned about Polly’s marriage and she knows that most men are not seriously interested in her. So she decides to keep Polly in the boarding house

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    Eveline by James Joyce In the story‚ "Eveline‚" by James Joyce‚ a young girl named Eveline has to make a hard choice between staying at home or moving out with her lover. She keeps reminiscing on the memories she shared with her father‚ the good and the bad‚ and doesn’t know if she wants to be a good daughter and obey her father. On the other hand‚ she meets her lover‚ Frank the sailor‚ who she is madly in love with and secretly wants to run away and live a life of true happiness with in Buenos

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    Peace Madueme British Literature II Mao/Tempesta 27 April 2014 Failed Expectations: The Perception of Authority in James Joyce’s “The Dead” (9) In “The Dead‚” the last short story within James Joyce’s collection of short stories‚ Dubliners‚ the author narrates the happenings during and after a dinner party that the protagonist Gabriel Conroy attends. One of the major themes that appears throughout this story and the other stories within the collection is that of failed expectation. Many characters

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    etcetera are all more similar than different if you just look closer to the pieces that create them rather than looking at them just as what they are. “Araby” by James Joyce is a short story of a young boy growing into an adolescent as he goes through the common feelings and events that follow experiencing first love. Also by James Joyce‚ “The Dead” it is about a middle aged man‚ Gabriel‚ who is having trouble dealing with the shock of the news of his wife’s first love‚ his once routine and satisfied

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    The character Gabriel talks about death and tells us about himself in “The Dead” by James Joyce. Through time and symbolism we are introduced to him and what he’s talking about in the story. In the story‚ Gabriel makes the readers conclude that his talking about time. How the time passes once his wife dies. Throughout the story‚ he talks about how his wife changed because of death. “She had had that romance” meaning that she still had “her first girlish beauty” she would have before she died. With

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    “The Dead “written by James Joyce is a short story that gives an insight into the character of Gabriel. The author gives aspects to the character of Gabriel that will reveal to the reader’s and to the character himself; using imagery‚ point of view. As Gabriel’s wife is sleeping. The author give the imagery through the short story in order to express Gabriel’s character. For example‚ Gabriel sees the boots that represent life and death. “One boot stood upright‚ its limb upper fallen down.” The

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    Araby Araby is a short story about a young boy that falls in love that has little or no experiences on the subject he in turn gets to feel for himself some of the follies that come along with it. Firstly we see the awkwardness the boy demonstrates around his crush. This boy who remains nameless throughout the story we see follow around a girl and spy on her‚ this in my books isn’t a great way to get the ladies‚ but on the other hand he is just a boy and the story took place over

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