A story by Joyce called "A little cloud" shows how a man by the name of Chandler dreams of being famous. In a sense he is living in the clouds of his own thoughts and dreams. "Every step brought him nearer to London, father from his own sober inartistic life". What I think he means by this statement is that he feels like a nobody. By reading poetry by Byron he's focusing on Byron’s ideas. Poetry is supposed to be unique, things about your own life to share. But he had nothing unique about his life. What was he actually doing to get to London?.

Chandler was a married man with a child. He probably felt like his current life stopped him from achieving his goal of being a poet. He didn't see how much work it needed to get to that point. He wasn’t like his friend Gallaher. Gallaher was a man that traveled, had a good

Joyce did not give the boy a name on purpose. By doing this, it seems as if Joyce is hinting to us that the boy has no identity, therefore alienating the boy from himself. Mangan’s sister also isn’t given a name. The boy crushes on her and he desperately seems like he wants her attention. By thinking of her, he tried to make his life bearable. His life was going to school by day and staying in his room by night: “ I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom, her image came between me and the page I strove to read”. Another reason he could feel alienated is by his drunk uncle. The boy states: “ my uncle said he was very sorry he had forgotten.” At this point in the story the uncle goes on to say, “ All work and no play makes jack a dull boy”, then he asked if he knew “The Arabs farewell to his steed”. These statements prove to me that he was there physically but not psychologically.!

Especially when the boy went to Bazaar. It was “useless”, he won’t get anything out of it. Perhaps his self-esteem went down because the girl was laughing and looking at him at bazaar. This paralyzes him as well. He left empty handed and no gift was bought for Mangan’s sister. The problems is that these people wanted to be something else, or do something else to change their normal so-called life. The causes are very clear. The possible ways out of paralysis could be doing something about their life to make it better. The ways in which these characters acted, they let things get in the way in what they wanted. They chose the wrong road and got stuck or lost.

Gabriel soon feels like he has the symptoms of love towards Gretta. The way in which it is shown is when Gabriel’s eyes fill with tears, “ He had never felt like that himself towards any woman but he knew that such a feeling must be love”. Everything is fine until Gretta shares her unshared past with him. Michael, a young boy who loved her then died for her. This time, Gabriel’s feeling changed towards her. In my opinion, the dead (Michael), changed and killed his feeling for Gretta. The feelings for her seemed as if they were dead too. Michaels “Soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living things and the dead”. Even though Michael is dead, Gabriel felt weak. I don’t think he would do something as kill himself for a girl. That was a big and brave thing to do and I don’t think that he felt b

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