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Reading against James Joyce's Dubliners : “Clay” and Joyce's “nicely polished looking-glass”
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Academic journal
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Sungjin Jang (중앙대학교)
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서울시립대학교 도시인문학연구소 도시인문학연구 도시인문학연구 제13권 제1호 KCI Accredited Journals
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2021.1
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7 - 26 (20page)

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Reading against James Joyce's Dubliners : “Clay” and Joyce's “nicely polished looking-glass”
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It is now well known that James Joyce showed his wish to write a book about the city Dublin and Dubliners. However, this paper argues that, contrary to James Joyce’s purported intention of having Dubliners look at themselves in his “nicely polished looking-glass,” Maria in “Clay” refuses to see herself who she is, thus intentionally cracking this “looking-glass. As soon as Maria leaves the laundry, Joyce tells the reader which trams she takes and where she stops to buy cake, and even includes the length of her journey. This topographic precision with travel time connotes that Joyce’s “nicely polished looking-glass” faithfully represents Dublin in “Clay” as it is. But Maria refuses to see this polished mirror; Maria, who is an old and plain-looking woman, still sees herself as a tiny, attractive, and even youthful woman. In the beginning of the story, especially in the Dublin by Lamplight laundry, Maria believes that she is loved by the people there. But, as soon as she steps out of the laundry, she is often mistreated and ignored. While Maria always tries to remain positive, especially concerning the possibility of marriage, people in Dublin treat her with indifference, which insinuates that Maria will continue her lonely life until death. By juxtaposing the cartographic detail of Dublin and people’s harsh attitude towards Maria, Joyce asks Maria to see hers lf as she is; however, Maria does not do so. Rather, she still holds onto the belief everyone loves her and that she will eventually be married. Thus, we can see “nicely polished looking-glass” beginning to crack already with Dubliners, not with A Portrait.

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