İNGİLİZ/AMERİKAN EDEBİYATI I

James Joyce is known for his unique stream of consciousness style, which inspired William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf later on. Therefore, the correct option is A.

As an Irish writer, James Joyce pictured the lives of Irish people in his works and his narrations were about the lives and thoughts of his people. Therefore, the correct option is D.

Ireland was trying to get its independence from Great Britain and James Joyce  experienced difficult times in preserving the Irish culture against the dominant English culture. Therefore, the correct option is D.

The Ulysses is written by James Joyce. Therefore, the correct option is E.

'The concept of marriage becomes more than a feeling and it includes the social standards, moral obligations and public perception' is simply the background to the story. Therefore, the correct option is C.

The main setting of the story is the boarding house. Therefore, the correct choice is E.

James Joyce published his short story collection Dubliners in 1914. The characters and places in this collection look real and he criticized the Dubliners in many aspects.

He started writing his masterpiece The Ulysses in Zurich and the book was published in 1922. Due to censorship policies, The Ulysses became legal in the United States and in the Great Britain in 1933.

In his literary works, James Joyce portrays the lives of people who look like real characters fresh from real life. Although Joyce did spend most of his adult lifetime away from his home country, he was quite successful in picturing and narrating the lives of Irish people.

Mr. Mooney sinks into alcoholism and ruins the family business due to his increasing debts and selling bad meat. Mrs. Mooney separates from her husband and begins to live with her children. With the money remaining from the butcher’s shop, Mrs. Mooney sets up a boarding house.

Mrs. Mooney is sure that Polly and Mr. Doran has to marry in order to save her daughter’s honour. Mr. Doran has to make up reparations for putting Polly’s reputation in danger and taking advantage of Polly’s youth. According to Mrs. Mooney, Mr. Doran is a serious man of thirty-four or thirty-five. He is not like the other men in the boarding house. He has been employed for thirteen years at a respectable office and she thinks he would not want to risk his job by refusing to marry Polly. If things go public, it will be difficult for him to keep his job and reputation. Mrs. Mooney knows that Mr. Doran can afford marriage since she suspects that he has been saving money.

The boarding house is about a mother who plots to marry her daughter with a man whom the daughter has an affair with. This story is under the title “Parent and Child” and it mainly tells how and what a mother thinks and plans about her daughter.

The main setting of the story is the boarding house run by Mrs. Mooney. After she separated from her husband Mr. Mooney, she set up a boarding house and used the money left from the unsuccessful butcher’s business. She and her children now live in the boarding house. The setting is a place where people from various backgrounds meet and mingle.

It is actually a house, a shelter to people from different backgrounds. It roofs various people and becomes a microcosm of the city of Dublin. On Sundays, the residents come together to sing, dance and entertain each other. It is a kind of social gathering place for people. People talk about the horse races, the artists and the relations just like Dubliners on the streets.  Everyone knows about everybody and various classes are mixed in the boarding house. The life in the house is governed by the social roles and responsibilities; hence, its inhabitants are not free to do whatever they want to do and they do not live separate lives.

Mrs. Mooney firmly governs the boarding house and also her daughter’s life. After her separation from her husband “She would give him neither money nor food nor house-room; and so he was obliged to enlist himself as a sheriff’s man” This also shows that she is a determined and firm lady.

Tone is the attitude of the writer towards the characters or the plot. The tone is described by using adjectives such as humorous, dramatic, tragic, serious or ironic. In The Boarding House, the tone of the story is ironic which gives the reader an idea about the values of the Dublin society and how characters contrast in their deeds and actions. The dominant tone in the story is ironic.

The story is not told from a single point of view and we are introduced to the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters, Mrs. Mooney’s, Mr. Doran’s and Polly. Therefore, the correct choice is E.

Mrs. Mooney is the owner of the boarding house in the story. Therefore, the correct choice is B.

He knows that he has two options available: to marry Polly or to run away. However, his social responsibilities and status do not allow him to run away. He can't risk his job or reputation in the society. Therefore, the correct option is A.

The dominant tone in the story is ironic. Therefore, the correct choice is B.