James Joyce Dubliners - created from Mind Map

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 deadImagination 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

James Joyce Dubliners