The Boarding House, By James Joyce (1914)
The Boarding House, By James Joyce (1914) Rating: 8/10 I want to talk about the place 'boarding house'. A boarding house is a place where lots of people stay, but usually, people who aren't rich manage and those class of people stay there. Mrs. Mooney was worried of these guests. They aren't rich so they may seem bad, and they could do something bad to Polly so she was very sharp of the part from Polly. Guests stay long in the boarding house, so they are almost familiar with each other and know well about each other. Also there are such rules to keep in the house, so the guest may have been afraid of the owner. Mr. Doran might have been that too. He afraid Mrs. Mooney so it was difficult to meet with Polly. Also I want to compare about the marriage with Eveline. In Eveline, the social background, which people thought that marriage is a kind of death to women, block marrying. In the boarding house, what Mrs. Monney thought about the husband could stop the marriage, bu...