Mooney, Polly and Eveline by James Joyce, Joyce was able to openly address women's lack of rights in a way that appeases the public eye and the critical thinker. It seems that Joyce's female characters were mirror imitations of the women of 1900. Women's suffrage was by no means a myth and James astutely depicted this in Dubliners. He was able to address the cruelty that women faced in marriage and from men in general. Furthermore, women were under the control of the Catholic Church and society as a whole. They had to accept where they were in life and deal with the suffocating pain that came with it. However, Joyce portrayed a side of women that was stronger than oppressive men and the heroine's ability to make the choice of self-sacrifice.