An Analysis Of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed In Life Due To His Father

Term Paper Title	An Analysis Of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed In Life Due To His Father
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An Analysis of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed in Life Due to His Father

     In "After The Race", by James Joyce in the book "Dubliners", the main
character, Jimmy Doyle will be an unproductive citizen, fooling around with his
friends and living off of his father's money for the rest of his life.  In this
short story he demonstrated that he doesn't realize the value of money, because
he has never had to work for it, hence he is too frivolous with it at times.
Jimmy also likes to be with his friends and to not work hard at what he does.
Jimmy has no work ethic because his father had a lot of money, in fact he is
referred to as a "merchant prince" in Dublin due to his success as a butcher,
and his father did not want Jimmy to work for what he has, but would rather see
his son become popular and make a lot of connections.  Jimmy's father is the
reason he will never succeed in life on his own.
     Jimmy Doyle grew in a family that was quite well off financially due to
the hard work of his father.  Mr. Doyle made a lot of money through hard work
and sacrifice as butcher, and he wanted nothing but the best for his son.  He
did not want his son to work as hard as he did growing up.  When Jimmy went away
to college, he spent more time socializing than he did studying.  "Jimmy did not
study very earnestly and took to bad courses for awhile.  He had money and he
was popular; ..."(p.25).  Jimmy liked better to be in the company of peers
rather than study, and his father condoned it.  When Jimmy was not doing well at
Dublin University, his father let him go off to Cambridge where he could "see
life a little".  While there he seemed to run the bills a little high, and his
father took care of all the expenses because he wanted to show off the money
that he had acquir...

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