Throughout Joyce's short story of a nameless adolescent boy, the recurring theme of colour and darkness is one of several literary devices deployed in the narrative to engage the reader in understanding the transformation which the protagonist is experiencing. In addition to the use of sounds, and senses as a whole, sight ... a silver bracelet"; "the words Cafẽ Chantant were written in colouerd lamps". The narrator and his young friends, all of whom are nameless except for Mangan, are continually referenced in terms of shadows and descriptions of the neighborhood are all dark: "The career ...

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