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Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around.
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Duffy, a bachelor, forms a close friendship with a married woman, Mrs.
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When Mrs. Sinico indicates she wants more from Mr. Duffy than friendship, their relationship ends. Four years later, Mr. Duffy reads a newspaper article reporting that Mrs. Sinico has been hit and killed by a train. He learns of her decline into alcoholism and feels guilty for ending their association and condemning her to a life of crushing loneliness. In " Ivy Day in the Committee Room ," workers on a city campaign gather at the end of the workday to share stories of canvassing and their opinions about their candidate's position on Nationalist issues.
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The workers are divided in their opinion about the King of England's upcoming visit to Dublin, and, to varying degrees, about Nationalism. A poem about Charles Parnell, an advocate for Irish home rule, brings them together in respect for the man's memory for a brief moment.
In " A Mother ," Mrs. Kearney makes arrangements for her daughter to perform as an accompanist in a four-concert series sponsored by a Nationalist arts society. When one of the concerts is cancelled due to poor attendance, Mrs. Kearney demands the society adhere to the contract and pay her daughter anyway.
Her insistence on payment and her argument with the society's secretary ends her daughter's musical career. In " Grace ," Tom Kernan 's heavy drinking causes him to fall down some stairs in a pub and hurt himself badly. A respectable businessman who has gone into decline, Mr.
Kernan still has powerful and respected friends who want to help him. They arrange to go to a church service together in the hope that the power of God will help Mr. Kernan to stop drinking.
He has an awkward conversation with the housemaid in an attempt to be friendly and a harsh disagreement with one of the guests, who questions his patriotism. These events make him nervous about a speech he is to give after dinner, but the speech goes well. Later, when he and his wife are in their hotel room, he discovers his wife had a sweetheart who died before she met Gabriel. This story and the other events of the evening lead Gabriel to question his own mortality and sense of worth. Have study documents to share about Dubliners?
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Ivy Day in the Committee Room. A Mother. The Dead. Public domain Public domain false false. Hidden category: Main pages with authority control data. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read Edit View history. Display Options. In the evening my aunt took me with her to visit the house of mourning. It was after sunset; but the window-panes of the houses that looked to the west reflected the tawny gold of a great bank of clouds.
Nannie received us in the hall; and, as it would have been unseemly to have shouted at her, my aunt shook hands with her for all. At the first landing she stopped and beckoned us forward encouragingly towards the open door of the dead-room. My aunt went in and the old woman, seeing that I hesitated to enter, began to beckon to me again repeatedly with her hand. I went in on tiptoe. The room through the lace end of the blind was suffused with dusky golden light amid which the candles looked like pale thin flames.
He had been coffined. Nannie gave the lead and we three knelt down at the foot of the bed. I noticed how clumsily her skirt was hooked at the back and how the heels of her cloth boots were trodden down all to one side. The fancy came to me that the old priest was smiling as he lay there in his coffin. But no. When we rose and went up to the head of the bed I saw that he was not smiling. There he lay, solemn and copious, vested as for the altar, his large hands loosely retaining a chalice.
His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur. There was a heavy odour in the room—the flowers. We blessed ourselves and came away. In the little room downstairs we found Eliza seated in his arm-chair in state. I groped my way towards my usual chair in the corner while Nannie went to the sideboard and brought out a decanter of sherry and some wine-glasses. She set these on the table and invited us to take a little glass of wine.
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She pressed me to take some cream crackers also but I declined because I thought I would make too much noise eating them. She seemed to be somewhat disappointed at my refusal and went over quietly to the sofa where she sat down behind her sister. No one spoke: we all gazed at the empty fireplace. Eliza sighed again and bowed her head in assent. My aunt fingered the stem of her wine-glass before sipping a little.
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He had a beautiful death, God be praised. She said he just looked as if he was asleep, he looked that peaceful and resigned. You were both very kind to him, I must say. All the work we had, she and me, getting in the woman to wash him and then laying him out and then the coffin and then arranging about the Mass in the chapel. Ah, poor James! He had his mind set on that Poor James! Eliza took out her handkerchief and wiped her eyes with it.
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Then she put it back again in her pocket and gazed into the empty grate for some time without speaking. And then his life was, you might say, crossed. A silence took possession of the little room and, under cover of it, I approached the table and tasted my sherry and then returned quietly to my chair in the corner. Eliza seemed to have fallen into a deep revery.
We waited respectfully for her to break the silence: and after a long pause she said slowly:. That was the beginning of it. Of course, they say it was all right, that it contained nothing, I mean.
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But still But poor James was so nervous, God be merciful to him!