7. "He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detall, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact." irony
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No this is not irony it is imagery because of all the description. The last segment also has a simile and the first segment has a metaphor.

i think its a.

an ugly duckling is teased by the other ducklings. when she grows up, however, the ducklings discover that she is a beautiful swan

answer: age of the protagonists.

dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by james joyce, published in 1914. they tell the stories of the irish middle class in and around dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

joyce divides the collection into three sections dealing with childhood, adolescence and maturity. therefore, one pattern he uses to organize his stories is the age of the protagonists. the initial stories deal with children, and as the stories continue, they focus on progressively older people.