ENGLSH 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Eveline, Nanny, Lady Friend
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Dubliners: the sisters, story of a boy who was friends with an old pastor, the pastor died, they go to the funeral, an encounter, dillon us a boy who basically runs the show. Mrs. mercer: she asks if he is going to araby(a bazaar, he goes because she cant, why does he go to araby. His pawning of his watch may symbolically release him from the shackles of schedules and time demands, but the frustrations of work only take on new and more extreme forms at the pub and at home. For farrington, life repeats itself: work is like the pub is like home: what a dick. A painful case: mr. duffy lives a very ordinary life, mrs. sinico and him were companions but she was married, she hit on him so he backed off, she becomes depressed and kills herself, he blames himself.
