Psychological Analysis Of James Augustine Aloysius Joyce...

Psychological Analysis and Symbolism in Two Gallants James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 to Mary and John Joyce in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar. A bright youth, Joyce attended private Jesuit schools where he excelled despite increasing familial problems, including encroaching poverty and his father’s alcoholism. Joyce, the eldest surviving son of Mary and John, was the only child in the family to attend college (Beja 11-14). Joyce subsided on various jobs after graduating, including teaching and working for a bank, but his main passion was always writing (18). He and his wife Nora eloped in 2004 and thereafter survived on a meagre income, often cohabitating with relatives in order to ease their financial burden. Their fiscal situation changed in 1915, when Joyce was introduced to a prominent English publisher and feminist named Harriet Shaw Weaver. Over the next 25 years, Joyce steadily gained popularity as a modern avant-garde writer, while Weaver provided Joyce with enough money to cease working his day jobs and focus exclusively on writing. He is arguably best known for his novel Ulysses, which examines a single day in the life of its main characters. In this novel, Joyce famously cycles through various story telling styles, including drama, parody, and stream-of-consciousness, switching from one viewpoint to another rapidly and without smooth transitions. The work of an advanced writer, Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov praised Ulysses,