Anger as a Brutal Act in James Joycefs short story gA Little Cloudh
             gA Little Cloudh written by James Joyce shows the life of a man, Chandler, who is obliged to his job and his marriage. He gets angry about his inability to escape this imprisonment. After a night of drinking and introspection, he comes home enraged with anger. His fury results as a brutal act towards his child, symbolically expressing his frustration with himself and with his life of boredom and missed opportunities. This paper discusses the character, Little Chandler, in James Joyce's "A Little Cloud", analyzing how the abuse against his child in the end of the story is caused by his feelings of anger and sense of imprisonment due to his jealousy and envy towards his friend Gallaher. Ultimately, his bottled up anger develops from the regret of not becoming as successful as he longed for.
             The short story begins with the introduction of a man known as Little Chandler, whom gets the name due to his fragile physical appearance of being a small and childlike man. He anticipates his meeting to come with his friend Gallagher, who left Ireland eight years earlier to soon become an important figure on the London press. Before leaving KingŒs Inns, where he works as a clerk, Chandler downheartedly thinks of life. On the way to the meeting place, he thinks about GallaherŒs success, his life and how he has been before he left Dublin. He also thinks about his own life and considers that he could have become a famous poet of the Celtic school in London. Excited, he goes to meet Gallagher at an expensive restaurant, Corless's, where they have several drinks.
             Little Chandler feels out of place amid the luxurious surroundings of the bar at Corless's, but Gallagher soon puts him at ease with his hospitable manner and stories about the world's great cities. They discuss some of their old friends, and they also discuss Little Chandler's recent marriage. ...