![]() Mooney intentionally allowed her daughter to be put in a morally questionable dilemma from which marriage would almost have to occur. Doran, she still does not intervene until “she judged it to be the right moment.” Her timing, along with the statement, “She was sure she would win,” makes clear that Mrs. Mooney “discovers” Polly engaging in more than casual flirting with Mr. Joyce writes, “There had been no open complicity between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the affair, still Mrs. ![]() She allows Polly to flirt with the young men in the house and does not regulate any of her activity. “The Boarding House” seems to concern itself with marriage Joyce tends to view marriage as being a trap created by certain social expectations, and this is evident in the story. ![]()
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