This was normal for women of the time, especially Irish women (Badcock, 38). Throughout the story, Joyce gives Aunt Julia and Aunt Kate a voice in the cultural struggle they are going through. Even more so, Aunt Kate, who struggles to be replaced by a man in the choir. Aunt Kate explains how the Pope changed the choir and how women were no longer allowed to be part of it: “Women work hard, if not harder than men, and they get rid of it like this” (Joyce, 36 years old ). As a reader you can argue that Joyce is showing some compassion by showing her voice, she is not entirely silenced like she was supposed to be at the time. With this comes the abrupt silence that we see in the following pages with dialogue. He mentions the problem, but never develops it. Joyce never develops this question more than a few sentences, which brings us back to the silenced characters. What Joyce does is he starts allowing them to have struggles and problems and then he takes it back and shuts them up again. When Norris explained that female characters fail to be silenced and that this is a good example of