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STRUCTURE
THEMES
NARRATIVE VOICE
STYLE
SETTING
DUBLINERS
(1914)
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STRUCTURE

THEMES

NARRATIVE VOICE

STYLE

SETTING

DUBLINERS (1914)

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STRUCTURE

CHILDHOOD, ADOLESCENCE, ADULTHOOD, PUBLIC LIFE

four aspects of the lives of Dubliners:

15 SHORT STORIES

SETTING

inhabitants had no opportunities to grow, to develop

DUBLIN

precise geographical details (street names, buildings) of the setting for each story.

STYLE

uses the real language of Dublin at the turn of the century. Individual tone and use of slang represent the different characters.

REALISM

the narrator echoes the thoughts and expressive style of a particular character.
The narrator generally has knowledge of just one character’s thoughts
The first three stories use first-person narrators. The twelve following stories use a third-person narrator.

NARRATIVE VOICE

‘FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE’

‘LIMITED OMNISCIENCE'

EPIPHANY: moments when the characters become aware of their condition of paralysis.

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THEMES

Dublin as a STATIC provincial town. Sense of FAILURE of characters. Condition of inaction or ‘PARALYSIS’ (physical and spiritual) which afflicts the people of Dublin. characters fail to change their lives