Sunday, October 12, 2008

Why is the priest's photo significant, why are his teeth yellow, and is Eveline going to be a prostitute in Buenos Aires?

In Joyce's
"," no, Eveline is not going to Argentina to be a prostitute.  Why would you think
that?  Is that what you think of when you think of Argentina?  There is nothing whatsoever in
the story about Eveline going into prostitution.  She is a 19-year-old woman with a lousy life
who meets a sailor and wants to go away.

The importance of the photo is that
the priest pictured is one more person to add to the list of people who have left Ireland.  The
story is filled with people who leave Ireland, and that is what Eveline wants to do. 


The photo is described as yellow because it's deteriorated; it's old.  And of course
this, by extension, suggests the state of Ireland itself. 

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