Joyce uses characterization in his stories to portray many aspects of his native city, Dublin. The description of Weather in "Counterparts", Gallagher in "a Little cloud" and Routh in "After the Race" as Englishmen reflects the defeat of Ireland to England. In "After the Race", Jimmy Doyle in an Irishman who realizes that he was never part of the game between Charles Segouin a Frenchman and Routh the Englishman. It all starts after a race when the winners all go to dinner and the night finishes on a boat by a card's game. Soon enough Jimmy realizes that the game is between Routh and Segouin, t...

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