「작은 구름」: 챈들러의 소인(小人) 기질 = Chandler as a Small Man in A Little Cloud

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to examine the narratives of A Little Cloud, the eighth story in James Joyce`s Dubliners, as well as to reconsider some of the external and internal conditions of Little Chandler, one of its main characters, on the basis of the concepts of the superior man(君子) and the small man(小人) in Confucius` Analects. The Analects contains a considerable number of comparative interpretations of the two above-named opposite figures. The political significance of the two figures, which refer to the ruling classes and commoners respectively, was changed into a moral and ethical concept by Confucius, so that the former came to be regarded as a positive moral figure and the latter as one to be sublated. In the story A Little Cloud, Thomas Chandler, an aspiring but frustrated artist in his thirties, appears as one of the paralyzed and gnomonic characters surviving in the city of Dublin. Not only because of his small and fragile figure but also because of his words, activities, intentions and desires, he strongly reminds the reader of the characteristics of the small man in the Analects. Chandler is to meet for the first time in eight years one of his friends, Gallaher, who allegedly had left dear dirty Dublin to become a prominent reporter in London. As `a poet manque` Chandler also wants to `get on` in London with the help of his successful friend. However, he does not seem to have either any talent or any artistic consciousness as a poet. He just seems to be a small man, who always looks for lower physical values, who is always conversant with gain, who is full of distress resulting from his failed desire, and who always lays blame on others in stead of himself. Joyce has successfully used the characterization of Chandler as one of his well-polished mirrors to ridicule and criticize the paralyzed situation of the people of Dublin, and the physically and spiritually small man as such may also be interpreted with the same significance and impact from the Confucian point of view.

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