Fragments of A Painful Case and Paper Pills

What can be said of the menacing literary masterpiece that is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is that the gender issues Joyce so surreptitiously weaves into Stephan Dedalus’s character create sizable obstacles for the reader to overcome. Joyce expertly composes a feminine backdrop in which he can mold Stephan to inexplicably become innately homosexual. As Laurie Teal points out “… Joyce plays with gender inversion as a uniquely powerful tool of characterization.”(63) Stephan’s constant conflict with himself and what he wants generate a need for validation that he tries to simulate through day dreams and fantasies but is ultimately unable to resolve. Through exploring the tones of characterization and the character development of

"A Painful Case" is built on clichés. The story of a misanthropic bachelor who meets an emotionally frustrated wife, develops a bond, then recoils at intimacy could not be more formulaic; she even dies of "sudden failure of the heart's action" (114). The irony is clear-the suddenness really took place four years earlier. Joyce wrote Dubliners to appeal to both a mass audience and scholars, and "A Painful Case" seems particularly driven to the popular reader and, with its tale of unrequited love, to female readers. James Duffy is skeptical and irritated by exactly this kind of bland, superficial writing: "She asked him why did he not write out his thoughts. For what, he asked her, with careful scorn. To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds? To submit himself to the criticisms of an obtuse middle class which entrusted its morality to policemen and its fine arts to impresarios?" (111) Joyce both launches into self-criticism and evades it; by critiquing the method he employs, he demonstrates a self-awareness that lifts his work beyond this "middle class" production. Duffy, too, practices this self-awareness in conjunction with Joyce. At the end of a token biographical paragraph, all delivered in the third-person past tense, we learn this tidbit: "He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a

Duffy uses abrupt, and violent language to communicate the discord in the speaker’s life. “my breath ripped / out in rags”(18-19) is a violent statement that is disjointed through enjambment; this technique of ripping apart the sentences to different lines adds to the feeling of discontinuity in the speakers life. This sense of discontinuity gives the reader a feeling of discontent. The self-destructive tone is mixed with a sneering attitude to create the impression of being an outcast. The Speaker seems to be

When the story begins, Mrs. Maloney is characterized as the epitome of the obedient and devoted wife that many people dream of. Though as the plot continues to develop, she undergoes events that change her into a woman whose internal devotions and actions are practically unrecognizable as she both kills her husband, and and realized that her true devotion is to herself and the safety of her and her unborn child, not to her husband. A pair of oppositional quotes that illustrate Mrs. Maloney’s difference of feelings related to her husband are, “For her, this was always a wonderful time of day. She knew he didn’t want to talk much until the first drink was finished, and she was satisfied to sit quietly, enjoying his company after the long hours alone in the house,”

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So much that she resides on the outskirts of the community, isolated by the forests. The two lovers are no longer allowed to not only feel their sin inside themselves anymore with Pearl serving as the embodiment of their sinful actions, proving Hawthorne’s point.

In conclusion, “The Devil’s Wife” is a beautifully written dramatic monologue in which Duffy uses this style of writing to explore the darker side of human nature. An especially effective part of the poem is the way Duffy expresses Hindley’s self-pity. This gives her a side we are more likely to have sympathy with but, due to the way that the persona is brought to life, we end up despising her even more by the end of the poem as we see how sinister and disturbed she really

Everyday we go through changes, some are good and others bad. Most humans have a breaking point and when you hit that level, you don’t know what to do anymore, but in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the narrator is compulsive. The story focuses on a woman who is diagnosed with a “temporary nervous depression” and has multiple breakdowns. Her husband John is a “physician of high standing” and moves her into a house where she can rest in isolation to recover. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses setting and symbolism to suggest that imprisoning oppression causes a type of loneliness that can lead to a deadly physiological form.

To begin with, the passage takes the reader through Gabriel’s reflections of the past, present,and future events. Joyce uses diction in order to illustrate that Gabriel has closed himself emotionally because of his difficulty

After nurse gave pain medication, I went to patient’s room to see how he was doing. The patient was in pain and he rated his 8 on a scale of 0 to10. I told the nurse that patient was in a lot of pain.

Joyce uses the voice of a young adolescent boy to illustrate the story focus point addressing how escaping into ones reality plays a major role in fantasy, and the despair of darkness and enlightenment towards the impact it has on ones life. The young adolescent boy is infatuated by his friends sister. The text goes soon to reference and I quote “If my uncle was seen turning the corner we hid ourself in the shadow until we had seen him safely housed. We waited to see whether she will go in and , if she remained , we left our shadow and walked up to Mangan’s steps resignedly. She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the light from the half -open door. “ (Joyce 742). This story is profoundly explaining how young adolescent boy fantasizes about friends sister. How he has promise to bring her gifts to show his admiration , and the story expresses the young boy anguish over his Uncle returning back home. Even though, the young boy is undeterred and figures out the reality and true nature of things. This is shown through the story when and I quote “ I was thankful that I could see so little . All my sense seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: O love O Love! many of times.” (Joyce 743) This quote is general

In Confession, the priest affirms Jackie’s thoughts about his grandmother by calling her “a bad case” (181), making Jackie feel better for thinking about killing her. However, he still makes sure that Jackie knows that he is “a terrible child” (181), so he can have the sorrow for those thoughts that is necessary to make a good Confession. Telling Jackie that “there’s a lot of people” (181) he’d like to attack with a knife, the priest assures Jackie that his thoughts are normal, but then lets him know that those thoughts are dangerous by telling him that “hanging is an awful death” (181) and that everyone who killed their grandmother said “ ‘twas never worth it” (181). The priest makes Jackie so comfortable with him and Confession, despite Mrs. Ryan’s fire and brimstone teachings, that they were in the confessional “for a full ten minutes talking” (182). From the time he enters the confession box, the priest affirms, protects, and guides Jackie, teaching him what Confession is really about and showing him the way into a comic

In this article, Sharkey analyzes every aspect from the content of the book itself to biographical relevance of Joyce’s book. Sharkey’s main problem is his overuse of plot summary. He combines his plot summary with his analysis in a way that can create an effective argument; however, he will sometimes just summarize and not include the analysis. The “Historical Context” section is not incorporated well into the argument. He states the fact and relates it to Joyce, but his argument would become stronger if he were to directly relate it to parts of the book. The phrase, “For example” (202, 203, 204) is used excessively throughout the paper rather than finding a new statement. Sharkey does however strengthen his argument by including many direct

Mr. Leopold Bloom faces many temptations during his 10 a.m. walk around Dublin on June 16, 1904, in James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece, Ulysses. Joyce uses a stream of consciousness technique that allows the reader to read the direct thoughts of the characters of his book throughout one day. Many Americans were offended at the character’s uncensored thoughts, and it took over ten years for the United States to allow publication of this purportedly obscene book. Since many people’s thoughts include sexual, violent, or other private information, the subject matter of the book can offend some individuals. The novel richly describes its characters in detail as a result of this controversial technique, an action that most works of fiction would

From his description of her face, we get a glimpse of their entire relationship. "Her face, which must have been handsome, had remained intelligent" (120). Her appearance is not as important to him as her intellect - the base of their later relationship. He also notices the fact that "she seemed so little awkward" (120). He notices in her eyes "a defiant note" but also "a temperament of great sensibility" (120). The way her eyes are described, as if a battle is happening there, suggests maybe on an uneven person, maybe a clue to what will come later in her death. We know that she is married and has a daughter. We learn that she is alone most of the time "As the husband was often away and the daughter out giving music lessons..." (121), and that the relationship between her and her husband is not close: "Captain Sinico encouraged his visits... He had dismissed his wife so sincerely" (121). From his description of their relationship in the newspaper article "had lived happily", we understand how oblivious he was to the fact that she wasn't happy.