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This 9 page paper is packed with analysis of the theme of isolation, paralysis, frustration and futility woven into the three stories in Dubliners: Araby, Eveline, and Counterparts. Three internal and external factors are given for each story, short synopsis and character anaylsis. Examples supported with quotes from text which are cited. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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most evident without being overt. If the author is skilled enough, he may use various vehicles to do this. Some use violence, others use symbols and some, like James Joyce,
use a combination of emotion and symbolism to elicit an emotional response that drives home his point. In several of James Joyces works, Araby, Eveline, and Counterparts, there are three
protagonists who struggle with a mental paralysis. This paralysis comes from an overpowering sense of frustration and futility. Some of the factors are external and others are internally caused by
the character. Eventually, these components serve to cripple the protagonists both mentally and even physically. In Joyces story, Araby, the settings
not only depict the internal state of the boy, who is never named, but serve to juxtapose the situation that he is about to come into contact with in the
bazaar. His movement from the confining and colorless home to the colorful and wildly free aura of the bazaar serve as an active antagonist, all ready to deny the protagonist
that which he desires the most. In the first few lines, the use of repetitive adverbs and adjectives that depict sadness, aloneness, and disconnectedness are pervasive:
North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of
two stories stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one
another with brown imperturbable faces(Joyce 29). It is this Middle Eastern bazaar that James Joyce uses in his depiction of the short story, Araby. In this story Joyce contrasts the
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