The Boarding House agitated state, we learn through Doran’s memories that she initiated the relationship. After Doran leaves the room, Polly seems content, suggesting that she was putting on a show of anguish for his sake. The story closes with Mrs. Mooney calling Polly down so that Mr. Doran can speak to her. The Boarding House "The Boarding House" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners." Mrs. Mooney, separated from her husband, a butcher who descended into alcoholism, runs a boarding house for working men. Her daughter Polly entertains the boarders by singing and flirting with them.
Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories Return" (the first two parts of "To Have and Have Not"); and "An African Story" (filleted from various chapters of "The Garden of Eden"—itself a posthumous novel). Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories is a posthumous collection of Hemingway's short fiction, published in 1995. Introduced by James Fenton, it is published in the UK only by Random House as part of the Everyman Library. The collection is split in two parts. Part One contains the four individual collections of stories Hemingway published during his lifetime. They are the tiny experimental prose volume, "in our time" (1924),