![]() Both these incidents are significant because they highlight to the reader the difference between fantasy and reality. Chandler has half an idea about a poem and later he thinks that maybe he should change his name to something more Irish looking. It is while he is walking through Dublin, on his way to meet Gallaher that the reader realises the depth of this daydreaming or desire to escape. That change includes not only leaving Dublin but leaving his wife Annie and his young son too.Ĭhandler’s avenues of escape are limited due to his circumstances, however this does not stop him from daydreaming about being a successfully published poet. ![]() ![]() Chandler feels (later in the story) that to succeed in life he must change his life. Joyce tells the reader that Chandler on many occasions would turn ‘often from his tiresome writing to gaze out of the office window.’ This early insight into Chandler’s discontent or escape from reality (his job) is significant as it acts as a type of foreshadowing to later incidents in the story when the reader discovers just how discontent or frustrated Chandler actually is. ![]() Taken from his Dubliners collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and very early on in the story the reader gets an idea of exactly how discontent the main character Little Chandler really is. In A Little Cloud by James Joyce we have the theme of discontent, frustration, responsibility, resentment, escape and paralysis. ![]()
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