Two Gallants (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Joyce
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: About 1900-1907
- Setting: Dublin
- Principal Characters: Lenehan, Corley, A slavey
- Genres: Short fiction, Parody
- Subjects: Love or romance, Slavery or slaves, Money, Ireland or Irish people, Braggarts
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
The Story
“Two Gallants” sets up a series of expectations that are violated and reversed at the end of the story. First, the title suggests a world of gallantry, romance, and perhaps a doubling of lovers similar to a Shakespearean comedy. This expectation is reinforced by the narrator's description of the place and mood:
The streets, shuttered for the repose of Sunday, swarmed with a gaily coloured crowd. Like illumined pearls the lamps shone from the summits of their tall poles on the living texture below which, changing shape and hue unceasingly, sent up into the...
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