Dubliners · Character
Polly Mooney
The Mooneys' watchful daughter, whose quiet affair with a lodger becomes the bargaining chip in her mother's careful campaign.
supporting
First appearance: The Boarding House
As a supporting figure in Dubliners, Polly Mooney is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The daughter whose affair with Mr.
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Polly lives above the family boarding house, aware that she is being watched and that her mother's silence carries its own meaning. She is neither naive nor fully in control: she wants the affair to be thought her own…
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See Polly Mooney in The Boarding HouseNarrative arc
Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
Farrington’s psychological peak occurs here as his simmering resentment and humiliation explode into a direct,…
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See Polly Mooney in The Boarding House