ENGLISH 45C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lastminute.Com, System On A Chip, The West Briton
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Both the culmination of the volume + exceeds the volume. Written several years after most of the other stories; feels like it almost overbalances the others. Finale could be a dilation of araby, where narrator realizes his folly/shame. Beginning, lilly seems like one of the female characters from two gallants from whom. Characters from earlier stories are mentioned here; aunts gave concerts in same place as. All characters inhabit the same world (many show up in joyce"s ulysses as well) Long enough story to be a novella. How do we understand this story in that framework? what gabriel goes through is a minor event - but it produces something remarkable. Gabriel"s not the fully disappointed character we"ve gotten in previous stories; socially higher than other characters who"ve been focalized. Ways to understand joyce"s representation of gabriel. 1) a foolish character, we feel superior to him; but also a regular old protagonist, we have some sympathy.
