Even if he suspects there’s something wrong about him, he can’t stop being jealous. Nevertheless, by acting in this way, he’s losing and destroying himself.Īs everyone else, Little Chandler believes Gallaher’s trick. Gallaher’s trick works and everyone sees him as he wants to be seen. Maybe he hasn’t understood his wretchedness yet and he’s unconsciously living a big lie, or maybe he knows to be a loser and he’s just pretending to be someone else. He presents himself as an haughty, arrogant man who enjoys drinking and having fun, but this is not the real himself, it’s just a character he’s trying to create. He behaves like that to cover up all the mistakes he has made and his dissatisfaction. He shows off his “accomplishments” on purpose because he wants to underline his high social position, his important job and his richness. Gallaher pretends to be rich, powerful and happy, whereas he’s actually sad and broken. However, I don’t think Gallaher has really changed and has really become a boaster, this is just a mask he wears because he doesn’t want to show who he actually is, that is to say a failure. The real Gallaher is not the man who returns to Dublin after some years, as Little Cloud says this is not the Gallaher he used to know. From my point of view Gallaher is a very interesting character: at first he simply seems an arrogant man, but actually there is much more to discover in order to really understand him. A Little Cloud is one of the most fascinating stories from Dubliners.
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