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1、Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.-author-dateThe-Boarding-HouseThe-Boarding-HouseA Trap for MarriageThis is a short story. Someone would be likely to say it is a simple story. Or others may treat it as a story about the love affai
2、r between a young couple. However, it is far more than that. The Boarding House, written by James Joyce, is one of the short stories selected from Dubliners. It is a well-designed, complicated trap. It is a carefully plotted marriage. The mother- Mrs. Mooney, is more of a chief plotter than a conspi
3、racy. In my view, the conflict between Mrs. Mooney and the young man- Mr. Doran, is the highlight of the whole story. Why does Mrs. Mooney want to choose a young man for her daughter? Why does Mr. Doran to be the “lucky dog”? Why does Mr. Doran finally compromise to the mother in spite of his reluct
4、ance? I would like to, therefore, explain these questions in the following context.Mrs. Mooney is a pitiful but determined woman. After experiencing a frustrated marriage with her drunken, abusive husband, she gets separation from him and gives “him neither money nor food nor house-room”. Then, she
5、sets up a boarding house to support herself and her two children- Jack and Polly. She is also a big imposing woman and resourceful in business as she “governed the house cunningly and firmly”. She decides to take her daughter home to entertain her lodgers due to her ex-husbands disturbance to her da
6、ughter. She is a shrew judge and pays no attention to Polly flirting with the young men as she knows that “ none of them meant business”. As an ordinary mother, it goes without saying that Mrs. Mooney is eager to seek a proper young man for Polly. At the same time, she also wants Polly to have a hap
7、py marriage so as to make up for her regret in her own marriage. The most important thing is that she must find someone reliable to support the family when she becomes old. Due to her subtlety and canniness, Mrs. Mooney do know the difficulties to find a respectable man to marry Polly. “First of all
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