Dubliners Freedom and Confinement Quotes Page 1
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| Quote #1 Could he not escape from his little house? Was it too late for him to try to live bravely like Gallaher? Could he go to London? (A Little Cloud.109) |
Little Chandler asks as many questions as Shmoop does. Check out how desperate that tone is. All those quick queries right in a row give us the sense that Little Chandler's having a little freak out.
| Quote #2 He longed to ascend through the roof and fly away to another country where he would never again hear of his trouble, and yet a force pushed him downstairs step by step. (The Boarding House.22). |
Sometimes we're most childlike during the most adult situations. Really, you want to fly away, Bob? Real mature. Way to own up to your own deeds.
| Quote #3 But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad. (An Encounter.8) |
In Dublin, the push for freedom starts really, really young. The narrator of "An Encounter" wants desperately to find himself in a bona fide gunfight in the bona fide wild west. But instead he ends up almost trapped by a would-be pervert. Yeah, that's proof that dreams don't always come true if we've ever seen it.
