Discuss Joyce s Treatment of his Adolescent Characters
Joyce wrote ‘Dubliners’ when he was in his twenties. The characters in this section are of a similar age. This meant that Joyce was writing these stories from a perspective comparable to the characters. The view of the characters may resemble the thoughts of Joyce at the time. ... Eveline, the woman in question desires to escape from the paralysis of Dublin, another topic Joyce focuses on. Even though her father had begun to ‘threaten her’ and ‘say what he would do to her only for her dead mother’s sake’ and she has the choice of a new life, she finds it hard to leave. ... He is the one without money and ambition, yet he is the only man from Dublin, it seems as though Joyce has used Doyle to represent Dublin. ... This has been done to show Doyle’s confused nature at he seems to be stuck between two very distinct lives, and he doesn’t know where he stands.