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gayatri, thanks for doing this summary when you were apparently still in the midst of your end of the semester blitz! :-)) on this cloud idea... "Chandler floats on a little cloud, a temporary one, after his meeting with Gallaher, and he thinks he can also be a poet. This desire renewed in him after his meeting makes him react with disgust at his wife and child who he considers to be the obstacles to his creative impotency." ...you are so very absolutely correct...i was thinking of the cloud differently, but yes, it is as tho joyce is saying that chandler is on a cloud of happiness at the thoughts he entertains because of his reuniting with gallaher and because of gallaher's own success. i had thought that the little cloud was a little black cloud always hanging over chandler's head, keeping him from getting where he wanted to go, keeping him in ireland, that cloudy, rainy, 'dull' little place. he is such a dull little man with little hands and even smaller courage, and i envisioned him before as a little frail squirmy guy who looks down on people he wishes to believe are below him on the rungs of life, whilst he dreams of grandeur he will never ever realize, because he lacks what it takes to be successful in any case... hence the little cloud always o'er head... i dunno... so many ways to cut the mustard... and what a grand story it was... :) maureen. |
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