『더블린 사람들』 중 「진흙」에 나타나는 이중 목소리와 이중 패러디

Abstract

This study suggests that a double narrative voice in “Clay” from Dubliners can be analyzed as a narrative strategy for a double-parody. “Clay” is well-known for a double narrative voice: one is the voice of Maria and the other is that of the third-person narrator. At the beginning of this work, recognizing that Maria’s self-narration sounds like fairy tales, the reader can evoke the schema for Cinderella. This is where Maria’s self-narration is a parody of Cinderella in a positive way, which misleads the reader to think of Maria as a heroine in a canonized happy-ending fairy tale. However, in the help of the third narrator, the reader gradually realizes that Maria is nothing but a poor old unmarriable woman without getting respect or love from others. Considering that the meaning of parody is constructed in the mental process of searching for relationships between the parodied text and the original one, this study suggests that Maria’s self-narration can serve as the original text and the third-narration can be regarded as the parodied text. This is ironic parody because Maria is a parody of herself and this study illustrates how Joyce the author harnesses free indirect discourse and self-narration. It also shows how the reader identifies the double-parody and realizes Maria’s reality.