James Joyce Dubliners - created from Mind Map

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Araby

The Dead

Grace

After The Case

A Mother

Realistic Setting

Rarely uses Hyperbole

Understanding people and their environments

Allows his narrative voice to gravitate towards the voice of a textual character

Rarely uses First Person

Strange and mysterious events occur that remain unexplained

Routine

Characters and events that were alarming similar to real people and places

Doesn't tell people what to think

Allows them to come to their own conclusions

Lack of traditional dramatic resolution

The Dead's opening line

The narrative lends itself to a misuse of language typical of the character being described

Uses descriptions from the characters' point of view

Only in three stories

Empirical Perspective

Detached but highly perceptive narrative voice that displays the lives of the characters in precise detail

An understanding of characters is often given through an analysis of their possessions

The Sisters, An Encounter & Araby

Narrator never divulges his name and rarely participates in conversation

It's possible for a person to observe their own life from the outside

Points to details and suggestions, but never completes the puzzle

Although these events may not appear profound, the characters' intensely personal & often tragic certainly are

Sketch daily situations in which not much seems to happen

The Sisters

An Encounter

Progression through Youth to Age culminating in the dead

Imagination in youth can mask experiences, but it cannot reverse them or make them disappear

Clay

All set throughout Dublin

Fulfilment and contentedness remain foreign to Dubliners

Stories peer into home, hearts and minds of people whose lives connect and intermingle though the shared space and spirit of Dublin

A looking-glass with which the Irish could observe and study themselves

Ireland during the tumultuous 20th Century

Unfulfilled adventures

All people experience frustrated desire for love and new experiences

A character from one story will mention the name of a character in another story

Stories often have settings that appear in other stories

Such subtle connections create a sense of shared experience and evoke a map of Dublin life

Splintered into factions of Protestants and Catholic / Conservatives and Nationalists

The link between paralysis or inaction to both death and religion underpins all the stories in Dubliners

Characters face events that prevent them from taking action of fulfilling their desires

Experience a kind of death in life

The Sisters

The Encounter

The Death of Father Flynn

Inability to talk about death

Narrator's inability to leave the man

Scolding of Leo over the magazine

Tensions between Catholics and Protestants

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