ENG 342RW Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nora Barnacle, Gnomon, Lower Middle Class
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James joyce: joyce and yeats are often seen as mirror images of each other, however: He was known for his fifts there: eldest of 9 children, his father was a drunk which made them move around a lot, he started writing poems, then moved to short stories. He sees ireland in servitude to 2 masters: the roman catholic and the british protestant. He and his family were very pro parnell. In the first few stories, there is a similar narrator of a young boy, but he has some sort of knowledge looking back on these experiences. The sense of foreboding leads you into an. Casual impressions of the streets he passes betray the misery the lower class people suffer. However, this innocent boy feels no sympathy for them. He feels their life is something despicable and has nothing to do with his.
