Dubliners and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Several of Joyce's stories in Dubliners can read as lamentations. They
are showing the frustrated inability of man to represent meaning by
external means, including written word. When characters in ^Araby^,
and ^A Painful Case^ attempt to represent or signify themselves, other
characters or abstract spiritual entities with or through words, they
not only fail, but end up emotionally ruined. In T.S. Eliots^ poem, ^
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,^ the feeling relates to one
overall issue of emotional investment in representation. The poem
laments, and with this theme and the symbols used, it is signified
enough to be related to Joyce^s short stories in Dubliners.
The name of the story itself and the bazaar-within-the-story,
^Araby^ is the most crucial object of misdirected concentration
and sought signification. The boy explains, ^The symbols of
the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which
my soul luxuriated and cast on eastern enchantment over me.^
Joyce emphasizes the formal properties- ^syllables of the
word^- thus granting ^Araby^ a kind of physical, phonetic
importance beyond its external meaning. The narrator goes on
to describe ^Araby^ as ^the magical name.^ Throughout the
piece, the title-word ^Araby^ displays itself as a guiding
metaphor. The name of the poem by T.S. Eliot, ^The Love Song
of J. Alfred Prufrock^ is a misdirected concentration that is
significant. The title is very ironic. The irony is present
with the reader expecting the theme of love, but clashing that
idea with the boring and dry name of J. Alfred Prufrock. The
poem goes on to describe the journey as one, not of romantic,
heartfelt,! or brotherly love, but of one story of
frustration.
^A Painful Case,^ demonstrates a more complicated signifying
condition. Early in the story, Joyce describes a piece of
literature by emphasizing its formal properties, not its
^content.^ ^In the desk lay a manuscript translation of
Hauptmann^s Michael Kramer, the stage directions of which were
written in a purple, and a little sheaf of papers held together
by a brass pin.^ The conspicuous ^purple ink^ and ^brass pin^
highlight the graphic qualities of Duffy^s volume. Joyce goes
on to describe Duffy^s odd treatment of the manuscript, again
emphasizing actions. ^In these sheets a sentence was inscribes
from time to time and, in an ironical moment, the headline of
an advertisement for Bile Beans had been pasted on the first
sheet. The infrequency of Duffy^s inscription and his ^ironic^
outlook toward the physical text are made clear.
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