The Impression about James Joyce

 To sum up, what I felt about James Joyce in one word, is "difficult." Certainly, his literature is very abstract and has many meanings contained in it, making it difficult to interpret. What is said here is not that his expression is abstract. His writing is rather very concise and intuitive. However, the content contained in it is abstract. To read what he is trying to say, readers must know the historical context of the 19th century, and at least in Dubliners, readers must know the history of Ireland and England.

 Ironically, the fun of reading his writing comes from his abstractness. I think that after literature leaves the writer's hand, the interpretation is entirely up to the readers. For example, in Eveline, which D1 class read lastly, it can be interpreted that Frank tried to kidnap Eveline, and it is surely persuasive that no ship could go directly to Buenos Ayres from Dublin in the 1900s. His abstractness and a reader-unfriendly background explanation allow his writing to be interpreted in many directions.

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