SETTING

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ANALYSIS

COMPREHENSION

1. What do we learn about Mrs. Mooney's background and past life?

2. The plot of the story consists in entrapping a weak youngish man into marriage which was done by plot or by circumstance. What does each consist in?

3. What does Mrs Mooney mean by ‘the harm was done'?

4. Why was Mr Doran's anxious that Sunday morning?

5. What thought gave Mrs. Mooney satisfaction as she was looking at herself in the mirror?

PLOT STRUCTURE:

1)Find the paragraps offering the premises for the action of “The Boarding House”.

- What is the effect of alternation of narrative contraction and expansion in the exposition ?

- What facts are given as glimpses and which are represented as substantially realized episodes?

2)Identify the complication and the climax of the story

3)Find the extended and chronologically detailed flashback viewing the progress of the amorous affair..

4)What facts are given as implications?

1. What expressions does Joyce use to characterise Dublin?

2. Pick out all the expressions describing the boarding house. Was it a shabby or a rich house?

3. Pick out all the expressions describing the milieu:

- the owners of the house

- the lodgers

- the atmosphere of the house

4. What is the role of the time setting? What may be the associations of a calm Sunday which begins the week in England?

5. Consider the description of interior and exterior landscape on the Sunday morning (It was a bright Sunday morning ... the little volumes in their gloved hands.) Note how appearances of objects interact to produce an elevated atmosphere and a realm of metaphoric significance.

6. What parallels suggest that the twin forces forces of paralysis in Dublin society are the Church and public opinion? Pick out the same words used by the priest and Mrs Moooney in her thoughts.