, but he will still not let little Mr. Alleyne abuse him like that in front of a lady. Farrington wants more than anything to buy the women that he sees at the bar a drink, but he cannot being that he has spent all of his money on the days drinking. The absence of a female in Farringtons life just makes it harder to have any reason of changing anything in his life.The psychologically challenging components in Farringtons life cause him not to act in a positive way, but to continue the dreadful life he has lead up to this point. In all of the short stories of Dubliners, the characters cannot escape form either their actions or their environment. It seems that there is a definite order in the classes of Dublin and although some are better off than others, even the higher classes cannot find happiness in their lives and thrive on making the lower classes lives even worse than they already are. Joyce seems to be trying to get the reader to understand that Dublin is a horrible place and its inhabitants are overshadowed by its horrific existence....
