Dubliners | Summary

Summary of the Short Stories
In turn-of-the-century Dublin, the lives of several lower and middle-class Irishmen are described by the author. The first of these stories, “The Sisters,” portrays a boy of 8-9 years whose friend and mentor, Father Flynn, has just died. The boy and his aunt pay their respects to Flynn and his sisters at the sisters’ house.

In “An Encounter,” the narrator and his school-boy friend, Mahoney, cut a day’s school to have an adventure in Dublin. Just when it seems that nothing exciting will happen to them, they meet an elderly...


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