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The Irish 'Problem' (Background ('The Troubles' (will…

- - - - a dinner/dance party
        
        at the aunt's
        
        middle class?
      - difference in class --> drinking
    - - wants to quote Robert Browning in speech
        
        fears this will be pretencious
        
        would Shakespeare be better?
      - Molly Ivors challenges his Irishness
        
        hurt by West Briton comment
        
        is he an anglophile?
      - is a ball of nerves
        
        self-conscious throughout the whole text
      - focaliser - the story's narrator
      - can't be criticised, but criticises others
      - his lust turns to defeat
      - makes Greta an object of art
    - - the description of Greta as she listens to the song
      - Gabriel's struggles
      - alienation and disconnection (very much so at the end)
    - - unjustified
    - - Greta wants to go
        
        its her home
      - Gabriel wants to go to Europe for his languages
      - symbolic for death? Going west?
    - - snow - all encompassing Ireland
  - - - a judgmental jerk?
    - - a change? acknowledgement and remembrance
    - - a balanced compliment
    - - about nature vs. war?
    - - Ireland? A new fresh nation that keeps the Celtic tradition alive, but at the cost of many lives and coming centuries of strife.
  - - - salt of the earth type
      - a honourable guy
      - elegy
        
        poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead
    - - it's a political move not to talk about politics
- - - - hybridity
      - Anglo-Irish family
      - deeply religious, but untraditionally so
    - - cosmopliotan vs. rural settings
      - romantic vs. modernist sentiments
      - liberal vs. conservative attitudes
      - highly formalised structure, but quirky varieties
  - - - steadily declining fortunes (father in poverty)
      - plagued with declining vision
    - - self-imposed exile from Ireland
        
        wrote about Ireland
      - themes of alienation and dysfunction
      - high level of consciousness in narratives
      - influenced by Ibsen in early years
      - Ulysses (1922) considered his main work and a staple of modernism