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    her home of Dublin with her so-called new lover‚ Frank. Once Eveline arrives at the station to escape her miserable life‚ her unsecure‚ self-doubting personality gets the best of her. Joyce really shocks his readers when they discover that Eveline decides to stay in Dublin and not escape with Frank. The way that Joyce created Eveline’s personality and family history allows us to make sense as to why Eveline made the decision that she did. Eveline’s unconfident‚ self-doubting ways is one of the main

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    Eveline

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    Eveline Joyce set up the collection to move from stories about childhood onto stories about adolescence and finally stories about mature life and public life‚ all within the confines of Ireland’s big city. The text under interpretation is a bright example of a short story Joyce’s "Eveline" was the advent between adolescence and maturity. The story’s protagonist and title character‚ Eveline‚ is largely affected by the feminist issues of the time period. These feminist ideas are illustrated through

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    distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. In literature‚ the movement is associated with the works of (among others) Eliot‚ James Joyce‚ Virginia Woolf‚ W.B. Yeats‚ Ezra Pound and Franz Kafka. In their attempt to throw off the aesthetic burden of the realist novel‚ these writers introduced a variety of literary tactics and devices: the radical disruption of linear flow of narrative;

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    section of the book “The Dubliners”‚ which are all created by James Joyce. This story’s main focus is on something that I feel is pretty common nowadays: young love. It’s about a young boy that has an infatuation with his friend’s sister. He obsesses over her‚ and he watches her every move. The only problem is the girl isn’t aware of his feelings because the young boy hasn’t expressed his feelings to her. It is said that James Joyce wrote this story based on his personal life experiences. Throughout

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    Celeste Stroup Interpretative Exercise 10/1/12 Araby vs. A&P Araby‚ written by James Joyce‚ and A&P‚ written by John Updike are two short stories that are a lot alike yet still completely different. Araby and A&P are both about young boys who are learning about love as they transition into adulthood. They both fall head over heels ‘in love’ with girls they have never met before. Both boys go to extremes measures to win over the love of the girls and be their hero’s. However‚ throughout

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    There’s a feeling of disconnect between Eveline and her family and home life. The “yellowing photograph that hung on the wall (4)” of the priest whose name she never knew was symbolic of how she lives in the house but is still detached from it. Joyce goes on to expand on her home life and just how boring and lacking it is. Eveline has taken on a large part of the responsibility of keeping the family together‚ just like her mother had done before her. She works hard at a job only to give all of

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    DeCicco Paper # B1 19 September 2013 Innocence to Adulthood Any young protagonist experiencing a significant change of knowledge about the world or himself will point or lead him toward an adult life. As seen in John Updike ’s "A & P" and James Joyce ’s "Araby‚" both of the main characters are confronted by situations that bring them to "thresholds of maturity and understanding" (Porter 64). There are attributes that the character must obtain and levels that the character must pass through during

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    Comparison of "The Boarding House" and "Araby" James Joyce wrote a collection of short stories that can be found published as Dubliners. An observant reader may notice a trend throughout these stories. They are stories of frustration and escape from the harsh realities that the characters are bound in. "Araby" details a boy’s first crush portraying youth and childhood. "The Boarding House" portrays marriage and love as a social convention and a trap. The innocent enthusiasm of "Araby" cannot be found

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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Commentary Passage: Page 248: "-You made me confess the fears that I have…" – Page 249: "Cranly did not answer." In this passage‚ Stephen is saying how Cranly has made him confess all of his fears to him‚ but then he tells Cranly what he does not fear. Stephen tells Cranly that he does not "fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever" he has to leave. Stephen has gone through several stages in his life‚ and now that he has gone

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    which revolves around the Misses Morkan’s annual dance‚ readers are given insight into the relationship between Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta. While the title may suggest it may have to do with the dead‚ the meaning goes beyond just death‚ as Joyce develops a story about loss and love. Literary critic Daniel Schwarz argues that in the final paragraph of “The Dead‚” readers are given a glimpse into what Gabriel needs and lacks‚ and that the “dissolution of his ego is a positive move because he

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