Chandler invites Gallagher over to see the wife and child, but Gallagher’s time in Ireland is too short and busy to permit a visit. He has been married for over a year, they have a baby boy. Gallagher laughs at Chandler’s provincial attitudes and shocks him with immoral stories of religious houses in Europe and the wild parties of the aristocracy. Little Chandler finds something upsetting about Gallagher: “There was something vulgar in his friend which he had not observed before”. Gallagher has wandered about the great cities of Western Europe.
The farthest he’s been from Ireland is the Isle of Man. They talk, Little Chandler shy in the company of his great friend among the topics is how little Chandler has never travelled. They talk about their old gang of friends most have either settled down for modest careers or have gone bankrupt. At Corless’s, Gallagher greets him enthusiastically. The dominant note of his poetry would be melancholy perhaps some of the English critics would recognize him as one of the Celtic school. Little Chandler cherishes vague dreams of being a poet. He had always been wild, mixing with rough fellows, borrowing money from everybody but something in him suggested future success. He remembers Ignatius Gallagher as he was eight years ago. His workday ends and he sets off Corless’s, one of Dublin’s most cosmopolitan bars and the appointed meeting place. He has books of poetry on his shelves at home sometimes he is seized by desire to read something to his wife, but his timidity holds him back. He works at his desk in King’s Inns, where he is employed as a clerk most of the time, thinking of people outside the office window and the melancholy of life. He’s called “Little Chandler” despite his more or less average height because he gives the impression of being small and childlike. 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.
A LITTLE CLOUD The title A little Cloud may be taken from the Bible (I Kings !8, 44).
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