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Dubliners Disappointment Quotes

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After three weeks she had found a wife's life irksome and, later on, when she was beginning to find it unbearable, she had become a mother. (Grace.64)

Next on the Discovery Channel: "Worst Ideas Ever." Coping with your disappointment by getting knocked up has never been a good idea. And yet, for a lot of women in Dubliners, motherhood in all its forms, seems to provide the perfect distraction from their less than awesome personal lives.