ARABY

 

CHARACTERS:

It reveals that they are less important as individual than as a social group.

It tells that she probably studies in a catholic school.

When the boy sees the bazaar and he realizes that it isn’t as he had imagined, he feels sad and lost because of the delusion: he isn’t sure of what he feels for Mangan’s sister any longer.

 

SETTING:

The narrator’s house VS The building that houses “araby”

silent, wet, dark, cold, gloomy, old high, dark, silent, magic.

The overall atmosphere created by the setting of the story is one of despondency and oppression.

 

SYMBOLISM:

Is the focal point of his disappointment.

The symbolic significance is that the girl represents the chalice and this because she’s precious for the protagonist. This link this story to “the sisters” because there’s a reference to the religion.

 

NARRATOR:

The two protagonists are both paralyzed, the situation are both dark and negative, and there isn’t an evolution at the end of the two stories.

The main theme of “the sisters” is the death, but in the “araby” are the feeling.

Both the two stories have as a protagonist a young boy, and they’re both told by a first person narrator.

 

THEMES:

The central theme of this story is probably that people in Dublin can’t understand their feelings because of the society of that period.

The reference to the church are more frequently in “the sisters” but also in “araby” the religion represents an institution that makes the Dubliners full of fear.

the themes in common is the paralysis.

 

 

 

TWO GALLANTS

 

CHARACTERS:

It tells us that Lenehan expresses youth trough his clothes, but his figure reveals the coming of age. He pretends to be a young boy, but his aspect betrays him.

Corley's attitude to other people: egotism and arrogance.

The young woman's dressing and her way of confronting the world: boldly, defiantly, and confidently.

 

SETTINGS:

The story is set mainly in the Dublin's streets. The setting is particularly appropriate to the characters of the story because reflects their insubstantial and repetitive life: they "had walked the streets with friends and with girls" without a destination.

 

STRUCTURE:

The reader discovers this central question at the end of the story, or better in the last line of the story.

At first I might think that one of the Two Gallants would makes something bad to the young girl, because Lenehan said to have a squint at her, and at Colery appeared an unpleasant ring on his face.

Joyce created this confusion deliberately probably to make the story more interesting. The characters during all the story never say what is the central question, they use vague words not to make us guest the end.

 

NARRATOR:

Lenehan: Lenehan is represented as someone who wants to change the way he is living and the person he is. Joyce, using this character, gives the reader a lesson and something to reflect on.

Corley: he is described as an arrogant and Joyce describes and underlines only his defects. He uses this character to represent the type of person that he doesn't like and that he condemns in his novel.

The young woman:  The young woman is the representation of the deception. She is naïve, she is dressed with the Sunday dress to impress Corley but she doesn't imagine that his only intention is to take her money.

 

THEMES:

Unemployment: Joyce describe a type of society where a lot of people don't want to find a job, but gain money in a wrong way.

The abuse of women by man: Joyce uses Colery's character to describe how man use to abuse of women, in this situation to have some money, and Joyce describes his disappointment in the title :"two gallants" (using the irony).

Deception: Joyce makes the topic of deception appearing when Colery brails up the girl.