Chandler is to meet him that night, and he’s growing increasingly excited. Gallagher went off to London, and since then has become a great journalist.

Summary Eight years ago Little Chandler, the main character of the story, saw his friend Gallagher off at the North Wall he was escaping to London probably because he had trouble with the police. It can also point to Little Chandler’s character, a “little cloud”, like a storm in a tea-cup. So it is a sign of hope but of hope deluded. Anyway it can represent anything that obscures and casts shadows of gloom trouble and suspicion. Here it could refer to the presence of Gallagher who seems to cast a little cloud over Little Chandler’s life. The little cloud in the Bible puts an end to a long period of drought. Little Chandler’s dreams are much like the “ Little Cloud” of the story’s title: small and fleeting, drifting away just as quickly as they appeared.A LITTLE CLOUD The title A little Cloud may be taken from the Bible (I Kings !8, 44). In the end, Little Chandler experiences an epiphany that he is a “prisoner for life.” He is trapped by the mundane world of work and domesticity that he fell into through his fearful inability to pursue his passion. Annie chastises Little Chandler harshly, and the story ends with him in tears, once again resigned to his sad, small existence. Charged with caring for his infant son, he bungles this job badly and makes the baby cry hysterically. These feelings only increase when Little Chandler returns home. Their meeting leaves Little Chandler resentful and thwarted, as he feels that he’s more deserving of success than Gallaher is. Gallaher’s manners and appearance are coarse, and his time away from Dublin has only worsened his already questionable morality. However, upon meeting Gallaher, Little Chandler is somewhat let down. He grows to feel more empowered, imagining success and personal reinvention as a professional writer. As their meeting approaches, Little Chandler becomes lost in dreams of a more exciting, meaningful life. Gallaher left Dublin eight years before to pursue a more adventurous life as a journalist in London. With a “melancholy,” passive, resigned personality, Little Chandler has drifted along in life, vaguely dissatisfied, until one day his old friend Gallaher visits Dublin and invites him to meet at a fancy restaurant. He dreams of success and recognition as a poet but has been too timid to bring his dreams to fruition. Little Chandler works an unfulfilling job as a clerk at King’s Inn, a legal institution in Dublin, Ireland. He is nicknamed “Little Chandler” because of his below-average height and delicate, well-groomed appearance. He is Annie’s husband and an old friend of Ignatius Gallaher.

Thomas Chandler is the main character of the story.

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