I think each story has its own
message in relating to relationships and friendships. I found that they had the
very same lonely concept and that moment of rethinking and trying to relive
what are now memories. James Joyce’s Dubliners – A Painful Case and Kate Chopin’s,
The story of an hour stuck out to me the most especially Dubliners.
While reading James Joyce’s
Dubliners I had mixed emotions. At one point I pity Mr. Duffy then I was happy
for him, then I was angry at him. I gathered he is an old and lonely man but
very professional. “Meeting her a third time by accident found the courage to
make an appointment”. This makes me think that he is of great class or
standards and professional. He didn’t ask her out like any other man would
instead he made it a very formal proposal. I admired this about him but then I began
losing that admiration for him, since to me he thought of himself as better
than everyone and he was selfish too. His feelings matter but not Mrs. Sinico’s.
At this point I was angry but I pity him having to live such a lonely life. Even
though he chose to, sometimes society and the people you are surrounded by
makes you think or feel this way. This relates well to me. Since growing up I have
never met such rude and disrespectful people as I did in New York. Even the
children have no respect for anyone. Back home in Guyana, you walked the
streets feeling so comfortable. The kids would bright up your day with a “Good
Morning Aunty” or “How are you Aunty?” In New York City they would push you out
there way to get by and refer to you as the nastiest names ever. It seemed to
me when I first moved here one year ago that indecent language seem to be a
part of the alphabet over here. At some point I wanted to just stay indoors
where he faces are familiar and warm. So I wouldn’t completely blame Mr. Duffy
for being this way. However, he met a great woman that made him feel so
comfortable and that warm familiar feeling was beginning to come back. The kind
that made him feels not everyone is how he pictured them to be by the experience
with a few.
I was hoping for a great ending. It
felt so great to know that Mr. Duffy was finally about to leave his lonely life
in the past. However, this didn’t happen. I think that he was scared of being
hurt and had too much pride to be made a fool. He preferred to live his lonely
life since it made him happy. Mr. Duffy surely enjoyed the meetings he had with
Mrs. Sinico especially since he kept going back and was looking forward to
spending time with her alone. However, I believe Mrs. Sinico wasn’t given a
fair chance by Mr. Duffy. He was too caught up in his own lonely life.
By paragraph eleven they had many
“meetings” then for one week Mr. Duffy decided to have no contact with Mrs.
Sinico until one day when he finally wrote asking to meet her. He met her that
afternoon in the Park but only to break her heart. She eventually killed herself. He never stop
to think about her feelings until she died then he figured what a life she had
to live.
As the reader I wondered why the
author started the story in a very lonely place and ended it in the same place
only with pain now. Mr. Duffy started off as a lonely man and the story ended
with him being in this very same place. I think everyone should be given a fair
chance and so should Mrs. Sinico. I think Joyce is trying to tell her readers
to never be afraid to let people into your lives and make the most of every
present day since one day it would all become memories.
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