James Jones, the Dubliners

Dubliners, a collection of short stories by James Joyce. She lives in a little brown house.

Brand new

A cripple = disabled (physical handicap)

Maimed

Dust  old times

Memories

Sadness

Grey: a dull colour

Elle a affaire à une patronne qui la reprend sans cesse, qui ne l’apprécie pas particulièrement

Her father gives her order. She was stressed because her father is violent with her brother but not with her, she have palpitations because she was stressed. An allusion to church

James Joyce was an Irish writer, born in Dublin in 1882, he was educated in Jesuit Schools (known for their education). He lives in Paris, in Switzerland, in Italy, he finished to write the Dubliners in 1906 he came to Dublin for the last time in 1912.

3 parts  Opening scene / later on / a second location = at the station with Frank, about to take the boat

In the front room of a “little brown house” (p.29 §12) in Dublin

It lasted just the duration of an evening. The evening invading the avenue may be a metaphor for the thoughts invading her mind.

Memories: good as well as bad ones

- Memories of her childhood and youth.

- More thoughts invade her mind: “the evening deepened in the avenue.”

At the end of the short story, night is there: “the black mass of the boat……illumined portholes”.

She stays!

Several factors  living condition (poverty) she goes to the North Wall, to the station and the harbour, she finally makes the decision not to go. Evelyne’s conditions on account of poverty: a hard life; works at the stores, does the householot chores, raises her two brothers on account of her mother’s death.

- No financial independence, gives all her wages to her father. He is violent, beat his wife, beats his younger children and even at times threatens her (probably because of heavy drinking)

- he abuses her verbally (p.31 l.8)

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