This collection of essays by thirty contributors. ‘No, I wouldn’t say he was exactly… but there was something queer… there was something uncanny about him. Enigmatic, vivid, and terse, James Joyces Dubliners continues both to puzzle and to compel its readers. While my aunt was ladling out my stirabout he said, as if returning to some former remark of his: Old Cotter was sitting at the fire, smoking, when I came downstairs to supper. In Dubliners Joyce focuses on the restraints that everyday realities impose on important aspects of life, such as relationships. Discuss some examples and explain the significance of Joyce’s use of them in the collection. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work. Joyce brings the reader’s attention to everyday objects throughout his stories. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. He had often said to me: ‘I am not long for this world,’ and I had thought his words idle. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.
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