Is This Love
In life's journey, one often comes to crucial crossroads in which one decides one's path, one's life and one's destiny. Faced with the consequences of an illicit affair and premarital sex, Mr. Bob Doran must choose whether to marry Polly Mooney, daughter of the boarding house's landlady or to watch his life ruined and his reputation smeared by this scandalous affair. Mrs. Mooney demands reparation. Mr. Doran loves Polly, yet he is not certain. Stuck in this dilemma, Mr. Doran fears his marriage to Polly. Before a new day dawns, an old day must end. Marriage opens the door to a lot of new wonders and possibilities. Yet it shuts the world of bachelorhood, along with its freedoms and this distresses Mr. Doran. Every pleasure has its corresponding responsibility, but he wants to just run away from it. His instinct
He could imagine his friends talking of the affair and laughing (par. Leonard calling him out in his rasping voice: "Send Mr. The affair would soon be talked about, and his employer, a Great Catholic, would certainly hear about it, Dublin being a small town where everyone knows everyone else's business (par. Worse, Polly's father, a shabby stooped drunkard, is a disreputable man. "As man advances in age, he 'retreats' in wisdom in his belief that wisdom is what society defines it to be. Watching all the things he strived for obliterated in a single moment haunts Mr. This further degrades Polly's reputation and, if the marriage is pursued, Mr. Mooney's boarding house began to acquire a certain fame. He could even feel his heart leap warmly in his throat as he heard in his excited imagination old Mr.
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