... regime than fight it. " Hemingway is saying here that living the controlled life is easier than living the adventurous life. In Dubliners by James Joyce, we venture into the lives of four subjugated individuals living in the city of Dublin, Ireland. The people in these stories each have ... Through these interpretations of life, Joyce articulates a culture of paralysis to the reader; he expresses this paralytic culture by showing the oppressive influence Ireland has over Little Chandler, and James Duffy, the contradictions of duties to family and to self in Eveline, and the self-conscio...

• Word Count: 1621
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... true of Ireland in the early decades of the 1900's. This time sets the scene for the characters in a collection of short stories by James Joyce, entitled "Dubliners". Celibacy plays a subtle part in several of the stories included in "Dubliners". A number of the characters remain celibate ... and lived happily ever after. In other cases social customs play a larger part than anything else in a person's choice to remain celibate. James Duffy exemplifies this idea well in "A Painful Case". He and Mrs. Sinico are involved in a relationship in which they often find themselves ... enough to ...

• Word Count: 1538
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School