March 22nd

In both stories, "Araby" and "Eveline" written by James Joyce you can clearly see his interests, commonalities in thinking and his religous side coming out.

He displayes his interests in love in both stories. In Araby we can clearly see that he is fasinated with Mangan's sister."Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlor watchning he door"(187). "When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped"(187). "Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance"(187).  In Eveline,  the same is clearly shown but towards a boy she had met, Frank. "Frank was very kind, manly,  open-hearted"(192). "First of all it had been an excitement for her to have a fellow and then she had begun to like him."(192). Both show of  Joyce's emotional side being brought out.

Joyce's commonalities in thinking can be shown when both characters thought processing leads them to be in front of a window contemplating. "Their cries reached me weakened and indistinct and,  leaning my forhead against the cool glass....I may have stood there for an hour,  seeing nothing but the brown-clad figure cast by my imagination..."(189). Eveline in the same way find herself staring out the window. "She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired" (191). Showing in both stories that Joyce's way of contemplating was always found next to a
window.

Finally in both stories we can see Joyce's religous side coming out with the mention of priests and God. wether he believed in God or not we know, we do know that he does have some religous aspect in his life. " The Former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing room" (187). Eveline in the same way mentions a priest. "And yet during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken harmonium beside the coloured print of the promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque." (191). Along with the priest Joyce's shows belief in God. "She felt her cheek pale and cold and, out of maze of distress, she prayed to God to direct her,  to show her what was her duty."(193). Joyce demonstrates a good use of his religous aspect in both stories.