![]() They meet an old man in a field and find him interesting until his repeated references to corporal punishment sour their mood.Ī teen boy in “Araby” has a crush on a local girl, the sister of his friend, Mangan. Tired of pretend games and wanting a real adventure, the boy and his friend, Mahony, skip school and explore Dublin. ![]() “An Encounter” features another young boy who tells about the forbidden detective and western stories he and his classmates smuggle to read in school despite the disapproval of the priests. ![]() After Father Flynn’s death, the boy visits the priest’s sisters, who wonder what they will do with their lives now that they no longer have to care for him. The boy and the priest have become friends, and the boy is surprised to hear from his aunt and uncle’s annoying friend that the priest is considered peculiar. In “The Sisters,” an unnamed young boy waits for Father Flynn, a local priest, to die after the man suffers his third stroke. ![]() It is structured to mimic a human life, beginning with stories about childhood and progressing to stories that deal with adult concerns and finally old age and death. ![]() Centering on the concept of epiphany, Irish writer James Joyce’s short-story collection Dubliners (1914) deals with contemporaneous Irish political and social issues. ![]()
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