· ‘A Painful Case’ is a case that is hard to analyse. It contains a trademark Joycean epiphany, but how significant this epiphany is remains doubtful; it is a story about the power of companionship, but stops short of being a great love story; in the end it is, perhaps, more about the triumph of solitude over human relationships, although this is itself a www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. A Painful Case by James Joyce This is one of the best short stories that I had the chance to read There is a certain progress in my approach to James Joyce’s work. After the terrible defeat that I suffered at the hands of Ulysses, I have come to conclude that a different route is more appropriate/5(). A bookcase had been made in an alcove by means of shelves of white wood. The bed was clothed with white bedclothes and a black and scarlet rug covered the foot. A little hand-mirror hung above the washstand and during the day a white-shaded lamp stood as the sole ornament of the mantelpiece.
A Painful Case by James Joyce is a story of loneliness, isolation and paralysis. James Duffy, the protagonist, was a predicatable bank cashier. He lived in a house neat and tidy, far from the city of Dublin enough to isolate himself. His everyday schedule was identical, paralysed by routine in other words. Paralysis: "A Painful Case". Mr. James Duffy seems to live in a constant effort to minimize his impact on the world. He worships monotony and anonymity in such a way that seems to paralyze his very existence. Joyce makes this artfully apparent in the language of the story, particularly in Mr. Duffy's free indirect discourse. The story, "A Painful Case" is about a man named Mr. Duffy who attends a concert one day and encounters a lady named Mrs. Sinico. As the two share interest in art, they become friends. Mr. Duffy thought that he'd finally made a friend but it was different for Mrs. Sinico.
A Painful Case by James Joyce. In A Painful Case by James Joyce we have the theme of loneliness, isolation, guilt, order and paralysis. 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 realises that Joyce, through the use of colour, is highlighting to the reader how lonely the main character, James Duffy’s life is. A bookcase had been made in an alcove by means of shelves of white wood. The bed was clothed with white bedclothes and a black and scarlet rug covered the foot. A little hand-mirror hung above the washstand and during the day a white-shaded lamp stood as the sole ornament of the mantelpiece. In deliberate criticism of what he saw as Victorian prudishness, Joyce’s writing often features frank discussion of sexuality and criticism of sexual repression. “A Painful Case” shows that strict adherence to sexual moral standards leads to sexual repression, with tragic consequences.
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