A Little Cloud
A Little Cloud James Joyce wrote the story "A Little Cloud"; the story was published in 1905. "A Little Cloud" takes place in Dublin. Which is known to be a dirty town. Little Chandler is a thirty-two year old married man with one son who is not quite one year old in the story. He is called little Chandler because of his appearance. He is slightly under stature height, which is he, under one hundred and eighty-five centimeters. He has small white hands, childish teeth and good nail care. Little Chandler has a fragile frame, silken hair and mustache; he has a quiet voice and refined manners. Little Chandler is an abstinent man, meaning he is sparing in eating and drinking. Little Chandler blushes very easily at almost anything. He appears to have a pretty good life; he works at the Kings Inn at a desk. He likes to read poetry and someday would like to write it. Little Chandler has never been in a great deal of trouble before in his life. He often thinks about his friend Ignatius Gallaher while at work, and how he has become a brilliant man in the Press. Little Chandler often thinks of his life, which makes him sad. Little Chandler meets
He has an unhealthy pallor to him, he looks sick from fear or illness. "Little Chandler felt his cheeks suffuse with shame and he stood back out of the lamplight. Now Little Chandler realizes it and feels bad for what he has done to his child. Little Chandler could have been living in a dream world about his poetry. The saying "that there was no doubt about it, if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. He is not married and he only plans to marry into money, so he will be set for life. Gallaher is more vulgar then Chandler. Little Chandler married because he loved the women he married. You could do nothing in Dublin" Little Chandler could have just believed it because everyone else believed it. So everything Little Chandler has done was worthless in his mind, but really he had succeeded; he has a job and a family and he never realized how lucky he was until the end of the story. A little man living in a little cloud of a dream world. The baby started crying and he found he wasn't able to read it anymore so he yelled at the child to quit crying which made the child cry more, then his wife came in and got angry with him. Gallaher works for the Press and leads a vagrant life; he has no definite direction in his life, he is always wondering from place to place. " Maybe this statement means that Little Chandler knows that it isn't the childs fault for the way his life turned out.
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