James Joyce completes his series, The Dubliners, with a story that does not give any hope for Ireland. "The Dead," refers "to the story's moribund characters and their preoccupation with the past" (Munich 173). Though the title is ... present, something Joyce wants all of Ireland to realize. Through imagery and Gabriel's epiphany, the reader is able to understand Joyce's opinions and hopes for Ireland. As a conclusion to The Dubliners, "The Dead" opens the country's eyes to their future, if they continue to reminisce. Only until the Irish people live in the present, instead of in the myth an...

• Word Count: 1200
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 410
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School