Scarica Riassunto sul libro 'The Dubliners' di James Joyce e più Guide, Progetti e Ricerche in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! CAROLINA AMATO – SUMMARY OF THE BOOK ‘THE DUBLINERS’ ‘The Dubliners’ is a book written in 1914 by the Irish writer James Joyce. This book is a collection of short stories regarding the lives of various inhabitants of the city of Dublin, and although it has no centralized plot, the stories are organized in a way that reflects the progression through life's stages. The first three are about childhood. The following four focus on unmarried young adults, in their late teens through the early thirties. The successive two stories feature main characters settled in adulthood who are unhappy with their jobs. The remaining stories focus on characters in early to late middle-age, some with more settled lives than others. The original version of the book features fifteen different stories, but the shortened version I had only contanied ten. In the first one, called ‘The Sisters’, a young boy deals with the death of his friend, an elderly priest. His mother brings him to the wake, where they sit with the priest's sisters, and learn some surprising facts about the priest's last days. The second one is named ‘Araby’ and features a young boy who is in love with a neighboorhood girl. He hopes to impress her by buying her a gift at an orientalist bazaar, but when he gets there the store is closing down and he realises that it was an hopeless cause. In the third story, ‘Eveline’, a nineteen-year-old girl struggles with poverty and the difficulties of supporting her family. Her only mean of escape is a sailor named Frank, who promises her a new life in Buenos Aires. At the end, however, she is too frightened to leave Dublin. The fourth one is called ‘Two Gallants’, and it’s about two young men who plot to get the new girlfriend of one of them, who is an housemaid, to steal from her employer, succeeding in the end. In the story number five, ‘The Boarding House’, a man in his thirties has an affair with the much younger daughter of his landlady, Mrs. Mooney. Fearing he might lose his job and destroy Polly's reputation if people found out about them, he caves to Mrs. Mooney's pressure to marry her daughter. In ‘A Little Cloud’, the following story, a man named Chandler questions his life choices after having drinks with an old friend of his who has become a journalist in London. He dreams of becoming a poet, but his family duties are too demanding. In the seventh story, ‘Clay’, a laundry worker named Maria spends the eve of Halloween with a man she used to babysit and his family. The evening goes well, but during a party game Maria chooces clay, the omen of death. In the eighth one, called ‘A Painful Case’, Mr Duffy forms a close friendship with a married woman, but stops seeing her when he starts fearing their friendship could turn into an affair. Years later, he reads about her death in the newspaper and feels guilty. In the ninth story, ‘A Mother’, a middle-aged woman makes arrangements for her daughter to perform in a four-series concert. When the concert flops, she demands for her daughter to be paid anyway. In the last short story, called ‘The Dead’, a man called Gabriel Conroy attends his aunts'
