“The Boarding House”, by James Joyce, from the mouth of Joyce himself, is part of a saga of short stories, called Dubliners, which assumes an authoritarian perspective on the conditions of the inhabitants of Dublin, Ireland. This story is one of many amplifications of the social problems plaguing Dublin. (Dettmar, p. 15) Regarding "The Boarding House", Joyce obviously focuses on the issue of the problematic role of fathers in Dublin, and says that Joyce was trying to convey their qualitative corruption of children in an attempt to attract the attention to what is important in the family. He does this by appealing to emotion and cold writing. Joyce also implements what are coincidentally psychologically supported principles of human behavior to teach the reader lessons about the real contingencies of society. The arguments here are derived using an integral form of induction and observation, rather than pure speculation. To be clearer, the arguments here have a strict ethical basis that derives from the techniques of professional literary critics and those professed in the field of literature. English literature. These wise men of literature taught me, through their example, the rules of interpreting literature. We learned that if we want to correctly understand the message of a story, it must be something that is prevalent throughout the story; something that comes and goes with little participation in the plot can be seen as something that simply serves to advance the story as much as it can be a means of real-world intellectual expression. Any proper analysis of the theme must treat the text as a Freudian-Jungian representation of the artist's opinions and feelings, as if it were the writer's dream, where each character...... middle of paper...... realistic principals, and science has many archives of knowledge about human behavior, implying that Jack and Polly Mooney were emotionally contagioned by the father, which is supported by psychology. As for why I believe that the actions of the Mooney children were a consequence of their father's behavior and feelings, we must absolutely accept that the emotions of human beings are mostly in exchange (Hatfield, Rapson and Le, 1- 15), which is evident in "The Boarding House", where we see Jack Mooney in the same violent rage that his father experienced at least once. There is also the misanthropic desire for rebellion that is evident in both children; Polly does not want to behave like a good girl and she sings provocative songs about herself, while Jack likes to stand out, like Polly, and practices the use of vulgarity. (Arp and Johnson, 414).