Do you think Mr Doran married Polly?

Do you think Mr Doran married Polly?

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Doran’s room and informed him that her mother had known their secret relation. Mr. Doran fell in confusion not knowing what to do. In fact, he was not in mind of marrying Polly.

Q. What is the setting of the boarding house?

Setting of time in “The Boarding House” by James Joyce is set in Dublin and was probably meant to be set at the beginning of the twentieth century as most of the stories in the collection “Dubliners”. In this short story, the environment setting is more important.

Q. What is Joyce’s Dublin like in Dubliners?

Joyce’s style in “Dubliners” is a mixture of realism and symbolism. As a matter of fact, on the one hand he describes in a very detailed way characters, streets and places of contemporary Dublin; on the other hand, he employs symbols: an ordinary object or fact are given a deeper meaning.

Q. Why did Mrs Mooney sell the butchers shop?

Mooney in the presence of customers and soon ruined the business by selling bad meat. Once her husband chased her with large knife in order to kill her and she had to protect herself by hiding in neighbours house. After that incident, Mrs. Mooney left her husband, sold the meat shop and started a boarding house.

Q. How does Mr Mooney succeed in her mission at the end?

Mooney has achieved what she’d hoped to: a better marriage for Polly than her own marriage had been. Mr. Mooney went “to the devil” after Mrs. Doran is a good man—a godly man from a nice family—and she allows him to become obligated to her daughter in order to make sure that her daughter’s marriage is a happier one.

Q. What are Mrs Mooney’s motivations in regards to her daughter?

As far as Mrs Mooney is concerned, the cleaver is a figurative representation of her character. She knows that life is hard and in an unforgiving, judgmental and less-than-perfect environment for her daughter, she knows that it will be difficult for Polly to marry well and secure her future.

Q. Who was Mr Doran in the boarding house?

Mooney’s boarding house who has an affair with Mrs. Mooney’s daughter, Polly. In his mid-30s, Mr. Doran has held a steady job for 13 years working for a Catholic wine merchant.

Q. What is the Epiphany in the boarding house?

The epiphany is the realization of wanting to escape from a certain situation but also realizing that social conventions will make that escape difficult or impossible. The reason they can’t escape from what we are to assume is their inevitable marriage is because of societal pressures.

Q. Why is Mrs Mooney sure she will win her confrontation with Mr Doran What will she win Why does she want to win?

Why does she want to win? She knows he wouldn’t want to do anything to hurt his reputation or his business and if he runs away and doesn’t marry Polly, those things will happen. She will win her right of making things right and that her daughter is now on the hook for her actions she made, forever.

Q. Why was Mr Doran not interested in getting married with Polly?

Doran showed no regard for religious principles when he fell in love with Polly. He was scared of marrying her because of his reputation in comparison to hers, and he only married her to cover up his sin and make sure the rumors of his affair don’t go to his former employer.

Q. What is a perverse Madonna?

‘Perverse madonna’ is a reference to the Virgin Mary, kitschy pictures of which used to be common in Catholic Irish households. The clue here, missed by the other two answers (which seriously overthink this line), is that Polly’s glance ‘made her look like’ someone giving another kind of glance.

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