Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
DATE
Outline your offering here.
Joyce starts the story off by talking about the uninhabited house on the end of his street and how it's seemingly neglected by the other houses.
"North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces."
" This happened morning after morning. I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."
The narrator talks about how he is hesitant to come into contact with this girl because he is nervous and holds high affections for her.
"At last she spoke to me." and "'If I go,' I said, 'I will bring you something.'"
The narrator finally talks to the girl of his dreams and he promises to bring her back a gift from the bazaar that he's going to later in the week.
"What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read."
The narrator can barely focus on anything but his trip to the bazaar to get the gift. He wishes to breeze through the next few days as they are an obstacle in his quest to get the gift for his dream girl.
"Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."
The narrator is angry because he felt unwanted at the bazaar and he didn't buy anything fast enough because the bazaar was closed right after he arrived. He was also disappointed in himself.
Outline your offering here.
Outline your offering here.