Dubliners (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: James Joyce
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth or early twentieth century
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Poverty or poor people, Christianity, Sisters, Catholics or Catholic Church, Ireland or Irish people, Priests, Peasantry or peasants, Cities or towns
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
Characters Discussed
“I,” the first-person narrator of the first three stories, often thought of as one character. In “The Sisters” and “Araby,” he reveals that he lives with an uncle and aunt. In “An Encounter,” he does not mention his home life, but there too he is bright, admired by his teachers, and disdainful of common people, an attitude he learns to reject.
James Flynn, a deceased priest in “The Sisters,” and a former teacher of the narrator. Unable to forgive himself for breaking a chalice containing sacred wine, he was found laughing to...
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