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Title: Joyce: A Little Cloud, A Mother, The Dead
Description: This is a 3-pages document containing a summary of the plot characters and themes of the above-mentioned literary works.
Description: This is a 3-pages document containing a summary of the plot characters and themes of the above-mentioned literary works.
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JOYCE
A LITTLE CLOUD
Plot
One evening, a fussy, conservative Dublin clerk known as Little Chandler sets out to meet his old
friend Gallaher at a restaurant called Corless's
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On the way, Little Chandler fantasizes about
succeeding himself, as a writer of poetry
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Characters
Gallagher
Little Chandler
Narrative voice: 1st person narration, is little chandler who is talking
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Themes
Choose between staying in Dublin and the desire to move from Dublin to follow one’s dreams or
desire to have a more successful life
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Epiphany when he sees a photo of his wife that reveals something to the character that is that his
wife doesn't love him and for us the epiphany communicates disillusionment, failure regarding love
Epiphany when he sees the Little cloud that represents paralysis of artist and moral paralysis of
ordinary people > sense of immobility
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Fame that does not make one happier
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When he refers to outdoor places he
gives precise streets to give a more realistic vision of the place and it is one of the characteristic of
Joyce's narrative
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We can say that rather
than describing what he sees, he evokes whatever is connected from the physical places
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The choice of this technique reveals something about the author
that thinks about the past but thinks of his future life elsewhere
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Holohan arranges with Mrs
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When the first
three concerts are sparsely attended, Mrs
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Finally, Mrs
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Characters
There are 2 main sets of characters:
The mother and her daughter
Mr Holohan: organizes concerts
Though the story is still set in an indoor place Mrs
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There is
probably a satirical attack against the moral values of Dubliners (some of them) in the character
of the mother (desire to climb the social ladder and snobbish attitude)
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Snobbish: not a symbol of a cultivated or positively
determined person
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Role of the mother: central in the whole story (she gives the title to the novel)
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Money is her main
interest
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Title: Joyce: A Little Cloud, A Mother, The Dead
Description: This is a 3-pages document containing a summary of the plot characters and themes of the above-mentioned literary works.
Description: This is a 3-pages document containing a summary of the plot characters and themes of the above-mentioned literary works.