Fearing humiliation if the affair is made public, Doran bows to pressure, agreeing to marry Polly. Mooney waits until the right moment to exert maximum pressure on Doran.

Doran has an affair with her daughter, Polly, who wishes her mother to intervene on her behalf. Mooney’s boarding house in the story “The Boarding House.” Ms. Corley tells Lenehan that he is trying to convince a housemaid he has been romancing to steal for him Lenehan becomes depressed, wondering if it would be better to grow up and settle down. “Two Gallants” tells the story of Corley and Lenehan, two men in their thirties still living as if they were younger, working intermittently, and spending their time drinking and chasing women. After losing a shocking amount of money at cards, Jimmy realizes that he is not on their level. Although Jimmy has money, his new friends are much wealthier, and he struggles to keep up. At the dock, she freezes, watching as Frank is swept away by a crowd, shouting, “Come!” In “After the Race,” Jimmy, a well-off young man falls in with a group of international friends.

Frank asks her to elope with him to South America. Eveline meets Frank and they begin an affair. Her mother has passed away, and her brothers have moved out, leaving her with her abusive father. “Eveline” is the main character of the story. He goes to one stall still open but, feeling unwanted by the proprietor, angrily watches everything shut down, feeling hopeless. The night of the bazaar, the narrator arrives at Araby as it is closing down. One day, she speaks to him, asking if he is going to the Araby Bazaar. 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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