Summary And Symbolism In James Joyce's Dubliners

Dubliners is a work portraying the Irish society of the early XXth century, in this period on conflicts and trouble in Ireland, Joyce came back to see his mother who was ill, and began to write the short stories. Opposed to Yeats position on separatism reflected in literature, he decided to paint a rather dark portrait of the city, instead of praising the mythological, folkloric culture of Ireland, and permitted to grow mature characters, attached to their country, with the conscience of its weakness and the desire to elevate it. In this perspective, the work of Emer Nolan enlightens us (p.1-8) Emer Nolan explains the different attitude of the two writers toward literary revival in Ireland. She presents Yeats ambition as a wish to enlightens the literature, which is “sterile” when not combined with “nature” and “country

The characters in their description inspire pity, and the relationship they have with food and drink doesn't come from their happiness, on the contrary, it seems that the relationship they have with food and especially drink is there to fill in for some deficiency. As in After the race, where race can be understood as “nation” (p.10-11), Jimmy drinks, he drinks “Ireland, England, France, Hungary, the United States of America”, although the author uses this very rich accumulation, and given the title of the short story, we can wonder: what is really after the Race? What does lie when we look deeper than the name of a nation, Joyce chooses to answer this question: Jimmy, the Irish young rich boy, has no idea what to do with his life. As Ireland, and its rich culture and tradition, the boy is doomed, he is lying in a state of