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James Joyce's Dubliners follows the thematic concerns of Modernist literature as summarized by the sociologist Georg Simmel: The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the...
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In "Ivy Day" the entire story revolves around a group of canvassers who are supposed to be out soliciting votes from the people they represent. However, they are not doing that. They are hanging...
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While it is beyond the scope herein to consider all the stories of James Joyce's Dubliners, (the stories through "Araby" have expressed epiphanies while the others have epiphanies reserved for...
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In the exposition to his story "Araby," Joyce creates a dark and cheerless scene: the boy's street is "blind"; the houses "gazed at one another with brown, impeturbable faces"; the air in the...
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While you have not specified which of Joyce's stories from Dubliners you are referring to, I can assume that you are referring to "An Encounter," as it is the only story to feature school-aged boys...
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While there is no specific story from Dubliners that is stated in the question, a safe assumption would be that the question refers to the first story. “The Sisters” establishes Joyce’s...
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About a third of the way through the story, Gabriel recalls an argument he had with his mother about his marriage to Gretta. As he recalls the argument "a shadow passe(s) over his face." He recalls...
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When I first read James Joyce's Dubliners, I found the short story "After the Race" to be the most difficult to understand. Indeed, I actually found it boring, initially. However, after reading it...
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The stories in James Joyce's book Dubliners are linked by setting and theme. All are set in the Irish city Dublin, and each one deals with some aspect of morality. Joyce described society as being...
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In a short story, the setting is a crucial element and, as it creates mood and circumstance, it can be as important as the theme. Short stories need to convey their message in a very short space of...
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Concerning Joyce's "Eveline," one cannot speak for the author, but can only deal with the effects of the story itself. The story furthers one of the themes revealed in the short story collection,...
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The most striking similarity between the stories is the stifling gender roles under which the women live in each. Eveline and Polly both live in households where women must do all that needs to be...
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These are two very interesting texts to compare. On the face of it, "Pushcart Man" is a rather simplistic poem about the pushcart man who gives his name to the title of the poem and who brings with...
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Free indirect discourse is when the point of view slides from third-person omniscient narration to inside the head of a particular person in a story without indicating the change. Jane Austen is...
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The use of the priest as a symbol represents James Joyce's use of irony regarding his own belief system, and also denotes his personal battle against the religious establishment. You can use that...
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The fire in the story is generally taken to represent Irish nationalism, the urge for independence from England. The story is overtly political, based as it is on the canvass for an election, and...
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I agree with the former respondent that, in general, religion is presented as a somewhat repressive force in Joyce's Dubliners. It is often associated with the elderly and with a lack of...
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The story makes it clear that Jimmy's father's prosperity has been something that has allowed Jimmy to receive a much higher standard of education than his background and class would have...
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I couldn't tell you the stories itself because they are complex and extensive, but the stories do portray women as victimized members of society. In some stories, they are victims of disease...
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Both the boy and Eveline are outsiders watching regular society pass them by. Both feel abused (or are abused) and frustrated with their social standing. Their social standing prevents them from...
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Taken just as you've written it, without examining the context, you'd need to center on "scrupulous meanness." Joyce says that he wrote Dubliners with scrupulous meanness. Scrupulous means to have...
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Having intended for Dubliners to be a tableau of the city and its people, both to themselves and to others, James Joyce connects his stories as the "stages of man." For, he has planned three...
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Jimmy in Joyce's "After the Race" from Dubliners is obsessed with being with and accepted by his European continental friends. He is the paralyzed Dubliner typical of the short story collection...
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As the question itself states, you are not being asked to write an essay here. A "reflection statement" should be your personal reflection on what you have learned from your reading and from your...
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While it some years since I have read Dubliners in full, I don't recall any passages that could be regarded as stream of consciousness narration. For the most part the stories are told in a fairly...
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Any physical item can serve as a symbol in a great literary work, since great authors choose those details that reflect and resonate with the whole of the work. So keep in mind the global question...
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"Eveline" is certainly an appropriate choice for the essay on Dublin's being "the soul of hemiplegia and paralysis" as the concept of paralysis drives this story. From the very beginning of this...
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The epiphany in "Araby" is that the bazaar that the young man has so longed to go to is not what he imagined, but a dirty and disappointing place that is nothing special at all. The young man has...
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The presence of priests in many of the stories contained in James Joyce's Dubliners symbolizes the presence of Catholicism in the lives of the Irish, an often overbearing presence that stultifies...
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At the beginning of the party, Gabriel feels he's better than most of the people there. He's better educated and considers himself more sophisticated. He thinks Ireland is a backward country with...
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The short answer to this question is that it is difficult to tell. Father Flynn is deceased, of course, in the story, so we are left with second hand memories of the man. It is clear that the...
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Eveline is a 19-year-old girl who finds life in 20th-century Dublin unbearable. She is a dutiful daughter, who takes care of her family, especially her father, who is often drunk and abusive....
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The narrator of the first story in Dubliners, "The Sisters", is a nameless main character who is also a young boy, perhaps an acolyte. His best friend is an elderly priest of the Catholic Church...
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The Dead by James Joyce is from The Dubliners series of short stories, all of which reveal aspects of society or flaws of human nature. Gabriel considers himself to be a knowledgeable man, superior...
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In both "Eveline" and "The Boarding House," it becomes apparent that the lives of the Irish women of Joyce's stories are certainly limited. For both Eveline and Polly marriage seems to be the only...
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Counterparts is one of the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners' series. Farrington is in an unrewarding job and has no motivation to do well. He feels unfairly treated and his manager, Mr. Alleyne...
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This is a tricky, but absolutely essential, question. James Joyce's Dubliners relies upon the concept of epiphany, as each story generally involves a character coming to a dramatic realization or...
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Your thesis for the story, "Eveline," from Joyce's Dubliners would depend on your interpretation of the story and the approach you want to take. I can suggest topics and research questions easier...
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What attracts Eveline more than anything else is the prospect of escape from a life of drudgery, hardship and suffering. The powerful memory she has of how her mother lived her life and how she...
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One of the primary tenets of the modernist period was the belief among artists that their artwork, including literature, could create social change and cure social ills. In American literature,...
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The conflict in this story is between the boys and society (or you might call it "the way the world works"). The boys want excitement and adventure, but they find that things that seem like they...
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One of the hallmarks of Joyce's style is the way that he uses epiphanies in his endings to this collection of stories. All of them end with an epiphany, which can be defined as a moment of sudden...
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I read "The Dubliners" many years ago, as part of school. I did not take the time to really read it. I scanned through it. This book is now on my list to reread. I know it is a classic and will...
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James Joyce's Dubliners was composed in a tripartite form, with childhood, adolescence, and adulthood as divisions. However, there is also a five-part division with three stories each devoted to...
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As one of the most famous short story collections ever written, The Dubliners by James Joyce is full of important lines and quotes, but arguably the most important is from the last paragraph of the...
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In Dubliners, the character Eveline suffers through psychological and emotional abuse by her father, who is an alcoholic. She is in charge of her father's business, which used to be her mother's...
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As with many of James Joyce's short stories in The Dubliners, "The Sisters" seems to have little to no plot. On the surface little seems to happen. We know from the beginning that Father Flynn is...
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In "The Sisters," the narrator's friend, a priest, has died, no longer associated with the church (a tragedy in such a heavily Catholic country such as Ireland) and alone except for his...
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In his writings, Joyce is often extremely critical of the Catholic Church in Ireland, presenting its domination of Irish public life as chiefly responsible for the country's cultural and...
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Please note that you are only allowed to ask one question at a time on Enotes. In your original question, you asked several. I've edited it to help you with Eveline's character. If you need further...
