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Dubliners | Two Gallants: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What is the symbolism of the “veiled moon” in this story?

2. Is there religious significance in Lenehan’s repeated statement that Corley’s exploits “take the biscuit”?

3. What effect can we draw from Corley’s always walking “as if he were on parade”?

4. Corley used to date a higher class of girls before he started dating a “slavey.” Why has he “traded down”?

5. The slavey is wearing blue and white for their date, the traditional colors of the Virgin Mary. What is the meaning of this?

6. After...


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