... boys life. Taking a broad examination of the text and sighting each reference to colour and shadow, it is only the narrator's outside world, which he yearns to understand and belong to, that is described in light and colour. The object of our narrator's affections, also nameless, is the sister of ... that the narrator (perhaps nameless to identify Joyce himself, as observed by other readers and scholars) views his childhood and city as restrictive, from which he yearns to leave. Because the sister is not a peer of the narrator's and by use of colour in detailing her, it appears that she...

• Word Count: 618
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate