1. Analysis on A Painful Case by James Joyce
Yet after a scrupulous analysis, I believe the whole narration, elevated by the title, to be an irony. ... ", for he had broken her heart four years ago. ... Death, in his opinion, had been probably due to shock and sudden failure of the heart's action". ... Such condition explained the anger, which was stage one of the self-deceptive irony --- he just subconsciously wished the exciting event to be relevant with himself. Secondly, the irony flourished when the emotion transferring from anger to sympathetic. ...
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