Perspectives

Next, we encourage you to look at the text of “The Boarding House” by James Joyce from different perspectives as it will help you engage in a more meaningful discussion about its themes and the author’s style of writing

Literary period

James Joyce was one of the first Modernist writers. This literary movement introduced innovations of narrative techniques...

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Works with the same theme

For the theme of marriage, we also recommend that you read the short story "Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood (Wider Contexts, pp. 70-72). The text belongs to the...

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Works by the same author

To put the short story into context, we recommend that you read some other shorts stories from the same collection, “Dubliners”. “Araby” might be a good starting point as the story deals with teenage love and issues related...

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