汤圆来历A LITTLE CLOUD
层峦叠嶂的意思The title
A little Cloud may be taken from the Bible (I Kings !8, 44). The little cloud in the Bible puts an end to a long period of drought. Here it could refer to the prence of Gallagher who ems to cast a little cloud over Little Chandler’s life. Anyway it can reprent anything that obscures and casts shadows of gloom trouble and suspicion. So it is a sign of hope but of hope deluded. It can also point to Little Chandler’s character, a “little cloud”, like a storm in a tea-cup.
Summary
Eight years ago Little Chandler, the main character of the story, saw his friend Gallagher off at the North Wall ; he was escaping to London probably becau he had trouble with the police. Gallagher went off to London, and since then has become a great journalist. Chandler is to meet him that night, and he’s growing increasingly excited.
He’s called “Little Chandler” despite his more or less average height becau he gives the impression of being small and childlike. He works at his desk in King’s Inns, where he is employed as a clerk most of the time, thinking of people outside the office window and the melancholy of life. He has books of poetry on his shelves at home; sometimes he is ized by desire to read something to his wife, but his timidity holds him back.
His workday ends and he ts off Corless’s, one of Dublin’s most cosmopolitan bars and the appointed meeting place. He remembers Ignatius Gallagher as he was eight years ago. He had always been wild, mixing with rough fellows, borrowing money from everybody but something in him suggested future success.
圣诞老人来送礼Little Chandler cherishes vague dreams of being a poet. The dominant note of his poetry would be melancholy; perhaps some of the English critics would recognize him as one of the Celtic school. At Corless’s, Gallagher greets him enthusiastically. He has aged badly. They talk about their old gang of friends; most have either ttled down for modest careers or have gone bankrupt. They talk, Little Chandler shy in the company of his great 修史
friend; among the topics is how little Chandler has never travelled. The farthest he’s been from Ireland is the Isle of Man. Gallagher has wandered about the great cities of Western Europe. Little Chandler finds something uptting about Gallagher: “There was something vulgar in his friend which he had not obrved before”. Gallagher laughs at Chandler’s provincial attitudes and shocks him with immoral stories of religious hous in Europe and the wild parties of the aristocracy.
The conversation turns back to Chandler. He has been married for over a year, they have a baby boy. Chandler invites Gallagher over to e the wife and child, but Gallagher’s time in Ireland is too short and busy to permit a visit. The next time Gallagher comes, the man say, and at Chandler’s insistence, they have another drink. Little Chandler feels the difference between his life and Gallagher’s. He can’t help being jealous; he is Gallagher’s superior in birth and education, but Gallagher has been much more successful.
The subject of marriage comes up. Gallagher says he many never get married, and that if he does it won’t be for a while yet. He has no plans to “put” his “ head in the sack”; Chand
ler says rather vehemently, “You’ll put your head in the sack… like everyone el if you can find the girl”. Gallagher says that if he does marry, it will be for money.
Later that night, Chandler is at home holding his baby. He came home late and forgot to get the coffee for his wife. His wife Annie goes out herlf buy it, putting the sleeping baby into his arms. Looking at wife’s photo, he finds her plain, very different from the exotic beautiful women of the continent. The furniture, chon by Annie, ems plain and cond-rate. He feels as if he is imprisoned. He opens a volume of Byron’s poems, and reads a rather romantic poem with a melancholy tone. He wonders if he could express himlf in such a way. As he tries to finish reading the poem, the child wakes up and starts to cry. He tries to soothe it, but when the child keeps crying he screams “Stop!”. After that, he can’t calm the boy. Annie comes home, and the boy is still crying. She angrily asks Chandler what he has done to it. Chandler stands by, tears of remor in his eyes. Significantly, Chandler’s wife in trying to calm the child calls him with Irish words a “lamb-child ” he himlf a predestined victim of the same malady: Dublin’s paralysis.
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冬天钓什么鱼The ttings are:
1).Everyday Dublin of Little Chandler’s life is a city of which is given an image of decrepitude, decay and extreme shabbiness: even the golden light of sunt can’t embellish it. We read of “vermin-like life” and “gaunt spectral mansions” where lost memories of the past no longer survive. The children play along dirty streets “crawl” and “squat” like mice upon the thresholds of the poor hous.
烈火英雄观后感
2).The office in King’s Inns where Little Chandler has been working for eight years is briefly hinted at. There Little Chandler carries out a “tiresome writing”, an unsatisfactory job which makes him sad and melancholy. He has no friends there only fellow-clerks. In that situation he feels a lor, a prisoner of paralysis. The only fleeting joy is the end of workday. Obviously the tting of the office reprents the paralysis that Little Chandler feels.
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