The Boarding House
Author: James Joyce
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Description: <p><strong>The Boarding House</strong> touches on topics such as marriage, social opinion and pressure, the importance of the Catholic Church in the lives of the Irish at the time, among others. The story is told by an unnamed narrator and the reader is given the point of view of two main characters, Mrs. Mooney and Bob Doran.</p> <p>Mrs. Mooney is a shrewd woman who has set up a boarding house on Hardwicke Street in Dublin, where she resides with her son and daughter Polly, as well as the tenants who stay there.</p> <p>Mr. Doran is a man in his thirties who during his stay at the boarding house slept with Polly, so Mrs. Mooney feels that he must make amends to her honor by marrying her. Because of this, Bob feels trapped and worried about what he should do and what others will think of him.</p>
Pages: 7
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