Counterparts james joyce7/4/2023 The story involves an unhappy work and home life, drink, poverty, the pawn shop, and bullying. This grim story from Dubliners focuses on the mean character of Farrington. When he went in by the sidedoor he found the kitchen empty and the kitchen fire nearly out. His tram let him down at Shelbourne Road and he steered his great body along in the shadow of the wall of the barracks. His heart swelled with fury and, when he thought of the woman in the big hat who had brushed against him and said Pardon! his fury nearly choked him. He had lost his reputation as a strong man, having been defeated twice by a mere boy. He began to feel thirsty again and he longed to be back again in the hot reeking publichouse. He had done for himself in the office, pawned his watch, spent all his money and he had not even got drunk. He felt humiliated and discontented: he did not even feel drunk and he had only twopence in his pocket. He was full of smouldering anger and revengefulness. A very sullenfaced man stood at the corner of O’Connell Bridge waiting for the little Sandymount tram to take him home.
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