İNGİLİZ/AMERİKAN EDEBİYATI I

On Sunday nights, the people in the boarding house unite. They listen to music, dance and talk. On these nights, Mrs. Mooney’s daughter Polly sings. She is a nineteen years old girl who used to work as a typist in an office. However,many men wanted to talk to her and Mrs. Mooney broughther daughter back to the house. Polly helpesher mother in the house. When Polly is present, young men in the boarding house like flirting with her. Mrs. Mooney thinks that these young men are just passingtheirtime with her daughter and they arenot serious about marriage. Mrs. Mooney soon findsoutthat Polly hasan affair with one of the residents of the boarding house: Mr. Doran. Mrs. Mooney doesnot intervene with this relation and simply watchesthe couple.

Since Sunday is the day for religious gathering at church (mass), people of the boarding house gather and gossip while drinking, dancing and flirting, which is not very Christian in nature. Therefore, the correct option is D.

Despite not being mentioned in the unit, Joyce and Woolf were the pioneers in literary modernism in the late 19th and early 20th century. Therefore, the correct option is C.

The setting is a place where people from various backgrounds meet and mingle. The residents are generally the tourists from Liverpool and the Isle of Man. Artists from the music halls visit the place and the clerks from the business field live in the boarding house. 

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. Therefore, the correct option is A.

The story is not told from a single point of view and we are introduced to the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters. In this respect, the short story has an omniscient third person narration. The characters are depicted in detail and background information about them is given. In the story, the events are told from Mrs. Mooney’s, Mr. Doran’s and partly Polly’s viewpoint and the focus is on what and how they feel rather than the events. Three different points of view help to overcome the limitations of the first person narration. The use of this narration technique helps the story become more novel like. The third person narration in the story is not biased or prejudiced but it portrays what really happens and how characters really think. This technique helps to get into the minds of the characters to understand their moods and the motives behind their actions. Therefore, the correct option is B.

Mrs. Mooney waits until the last moment Mr. Doran and Polly’s relation getspublic. She wants to secure her daughter in a comfortable marriage with someone from a higher class. She thinks men have to bear the consequences of their actions just like the women. However, at the same time she ironically plots to get Polly marry to Mr. Doran by manipulating their relation. Therefore, the correct option is C.

On one hand, Polly sometimes acts in a vulgar way and does not have a good grammar. Moreover, her father has a bad reputation and the boarding house of her mother is getting a certain fame. Since the Mooneys are coming from an inferior class, most probably Mr. Doran’sfamily will look down on Polly. These are the things that make him get rid of the idea of marriage. On the other hand, he feels guilty thanks to the priest he has confessed. He thinks reparation must be made for the affair with Polly and the reparation is marriage. Moreover, Mr. Doran is afraid of losing his respectable job. He has been working there for a long time and losing his job would mean to waste the years long labor.People will talk about this relation and it will be scandalous. Therefore, the correct option is E.

Polly is Mrs. Mooney’s young daughter who livesin the boarding house. She is described as:
“a slim girl of nineteen; she had light soft hair and a small full mouth. Her eyes, which were grey with a shade of green through them, had a habit of glancing upwards when she spoke with anyone, which made her look like a little perverse madonna (p.145).”
She seems an innocent young lady who is manipulated by her mother and her wishes. When her mother asks her to quit her job at the office she accepts it and when her mother wants her to entertain the young men at the boarding house, she acts accordingly. However, at the end of the story while Polly is waiting for the news, she seems to be sure that her mother will take care of everything and Mr. Doran will propose to her. She is ready for accepting the social necessities. It is not clear what she really feels about Mr. Doran but she is sure that she has tomarry him to save her reputation. She seems to act like her mother when she threatens Mr. Doran that she will kill herself because of the affair and then she feels comfortable and relaxed when Mr.Doran leaves to see her mother. At first she cries and begs but soon after Mr. Doran gets out of the door she stops crying and there is no fear or anxiety on her face. It does not matter for Polly whether Mr.Doran loves her. What matters toher is to marry a man like Mr. Doran. She is carried away by the dreams of the future her marriage will bring her. She will be secure and she will be higher in the social class. She is not surprised when her mother calls her at the end. All these hints make her innocence questionable. Like the other characters, she is bound to the social atmosphere of Dublin and in such an atmosphere marriage is based on social security rather than love.

Therefore, the correct option is E.

Mr. Doran feels trapped by Mrs. Mooney, church and society; Mrs. Mooney feels trapped by society and financial worries; and Polly feels trapped by her mother. Therefore, the correct option is A.

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. Therefore, the correct option is B.

In his work Dubliners,James Joyce narrates 15 stories all depicting the lives of the Irish people living in the capital Dublin. Therefore, the correct option is D.

James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882.

James Joyce is known for his unique stream of consciousness style, which inspired William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf later on

The Boarding House is one of the stories in Dubliners. Like the other stories in the book, the main setting of the story is Dublin.

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.

she is known as the madam.

She wanted a marrige suitable for her daughter.

She does not pay attention whether Polly really likes Mr. Doran or not. For Mrs. Mooney, Mr. Doran has to pay for taking the advantage of Polly’s youth. The payment is the marriage.

She is not an angry or tempered person.

he is a clerk.

She wants her married. that's all.