Brooklyn

This text  is an extract from a contempory novel called Brooklyn, written by Colm Toibin and published in 2009. This book  won the Costa prize for the best english novel.

Here the passage focuses on Eili’s current job, her future and her  possible emigration to America. Eili is the main character, there are other people present, Eili's mother, her sister Rose and Father Flood who is an Irish Pastor living in Brooklyn in America.* This text can be divided into 2 parts the first one could be about the fact that Eilis has to go away in order to find a job because of the economic context, and the first opposition of her mother.

* This text can be divided into 2 parts the first one could be about the fact that Eilis has to go away in order to find a job because of the economic context, and the first opposition of her mother.

* The second part could be about  the fact that thanks to Father Flood who highlights the american dream Eilis has the opportunity to has a better life in America and the fact that this idea makes her sad.