A PAINFUL CASE

A PAINFUL CASE

-James Joyce

·        Theme:

ð This Psychological story tells us about the importance of love in human life. If a person is hated from everybody, he couldn't be alive.

ð Love is the soul purpose of life, if a person is neglected, he resorts to drink and dies.

ð Idealism doesn't give us happiness we should learn to live in reality.

·        Characters:

ð Mr. James Duffy

ð Mrs. Simico

·        Summary:

In this psychological story, James Joyce tries to present the importance of love in human life. If a person doesn't get love he/she starts to drink and dies. This story also tells us that we should learn to live a practical life. If we become much idealistic, we couldn't get happiness in life.

                        Mr. James Duffy was a bachelor of having old type of behavior. He was working in a bank. He had the habit of staying alone because he didn't like to talk with other people. He liked to stay alone because he wanted to read book if we was free. He sometimes, used to listen music. He used to stay for away from the city center, in a room from where he could see the sea, not human beings at all.

                        Once he get a chance to be introduced with a women named Mrs. Simico. She was a married woman of having a baby. She was 39 years old. Her husband was the captain of the ship and he used to come to his house sometimes once a year. Her daughter was in a music school. So, husband and her daughter. When she met Mr. James Duffy, she hoped to get love from him, but Duffy was talking her relationship as friend. They had the intimate relation as they used to got to visit desert. Once Mrs. Simico invited Mr. Duffy for dinner. IN the conversation being furious, Duffy ended the relationship at the some time. Being alone Simico started to drink. After 4 years, one day Mr. Duffy was reading a newspaper with the news of a painful case from the news found out that Mr. Simico committed suicide being drunk on the rail line Mr. Duffy felt himself guilty as he denied her love. He lost the person out at least person used to love him he remembered those days. When they used to talk together his morality become useless.