A Little Cloud
“A Little Cloud” by James Joyce is a story with little happiness. It follows the main character, Chandler, through a night during which he is presented with the reality of his worst fear, which is that he will never amount to more than what he already is. He feels trapped by his circumstances, and a meeting with his friend who has overcome those circumstances serves as a reminder of how trapped Chandler really is. Joyce uses settings – the city of Dublin and Chandler’s own home - to reinforce the story’s theme of physical and spiritual imprisonment. Throughout the story, the main setting of Dublin looms large over Chandler’s head. He has lived in Dublin his entire life and harbors hope of escaping to London, where he can be free: “Was it too late to try to live bravely like Gallaher?” His feeling of imprisonment stems from the melancholy life he leads, and Joyce shores up that trapped feeling with Chandler’s observations about the city he lives in. The first setting in which Chandler is seen is his office in the King’s Inns. An office itself is a prison, with life going on outside. Chandler looks out the window from his “tiresome writing” to that life, and is still not cheered. He sees “untidy nurses and decrepit ol
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Approximate Word count = 914
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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