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This 5 page paper is a literary analysis of the book “Dubliners” by James Joyce, a collection of short stories. It concentrates on the famous story “Araby” as an example of the typical Joycean style. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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it, because it seems impossibly obscure and difficult. It may well be the height of Joyces stream-of-consciousness technique, but it remains the type of book people compare root canals to,
in the sense of "Id rather have a root canal that wade through Joyce!" Fortunately, Dubliners is not nearly as inaccessible or difficult, though its depiction of the life of
the residents of Dublin leaves a reader with a feeling of sadness and waste, as if the entire city is grieving for something. This paper analyzes the 15 stories that
make up Dubliners. Discussion The book is indeed a collection of 15 short stories; they can stand alone despite the fact that they are interconnected. It appears to have been
Joyces purpose to give his readers a glimpse of life as it really was in Dublin; if so, the city seems unhappy, full of people who are unable to reach
their potential, unable to fully partake of life. The tragedy is that they are also very self-aware. Consider one of the most famous of the stories, "Araby." The protagonist and
narrator, a boy in the grip of his first crush, is passionately devoted to a girl we know only as "Mangans sister" (Joyce). Each morning he waits for her to
leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where they exchange a few words: "I had never spoken to her, except for a
few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood" (Joyce). Like all teenagers, he creates an image of the girl that may or
may not really resemble the girl herself, and it is that image he worships; it accompanies him "even in places the most hostile to romance" (Joyce). He describes a trip
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