Le rire nuit-il à la transparence du saoi

EVELINE, IN DUBLINERS (1914) - JAMES JOYCE

1st paragraph :

• Personnification : the evening invade the avenue : referencing to something wichi s moving : invade
• SHE : capital letter t show that she’s the main character, eponyme character
• Someone who’s tired,she’s underpassive looking at the window, like the window is a gate where shecan contemplate
• Connection between words : « window, curtains, cretonne »
• WE’RE IN THE CHARACTER FLOW AND WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON HER SENS : « looking through, in looking outside »
• « window curtain » appear like sth on stage, that is going to be played
• THERE’S A CONNECTION BETWEEN WHAT YOU SEE AND WHAT YOU WANNA SEE
• HIS HEAD IS FILLED WITH CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

2nd paragraph :

• Mise en abyme because she’s reenacting a scene of the past in wich hersekf and children were acting smth
• Scene being reenacted in the past and the children are the players of this scene
• Repetition of « used to »
• Connection of somethong positive with smth negative : pleasant activity with being td up by an adult to stop
• Idea of danger becauseshe nedds to be worryof predators but inside would normally be the place where you’re safe, you feel secure, adults are supposed to protect you
• « go away » like go home, go away for dead people
• Contrats between a home and a house, a home can be a house but a house can’t be a home : home like people, places
• Mention of living the house
• « few people passed » : people she doesn’t know who lives next to her house
• Fisrt she talks about people she doesn’t know and then people she was very closed to
• Something she used to see but will no longer see especially if she leaves the house
• THE WORD HAPPY WOULD REFER TO THE PAST
• BUT THINGS WERE NOT THAT PERFECT IN THE PAST

3rd paragraph :

• We’re now looking on the inside : she’s looking at things which re there, familiar objects
• WE CAN FEEL WHAT SHES FEELING AND PERCEIVE THE ROOM EVEN IF WE DONT HAVE A CEAR VISION OF IT
• She’s supposed to take care of her house
• To dust can represent the paast that she’s replacing

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