Brady Meyer’s Reviews > Dubliners > Status Update

"Grace": A group of friends tries to help someone convert. I bet this one is a riot with Catholic scholars.

Only one to go!

"A Mother": A mom (rightly) fights for her daughter to be paid for providing piano accompaniments for several concerts. Pay your musicians, people!

"A Painful Case": a story about unrequited love that ends with tragedy.

"Ivy Day in the Committee Room": a group of canvassers (probably in it for the money) reflect the general apathy towards politicians and politics, even towards the figures people tend to revere.

"Counterparts": A warning against alcoholism.

"Clay": A young woman picks her destiny... twice.

"A Little Cloud": A really moving account about a man who wants out and his rich 'friend' who might want back in.

The Boarding House: "He remembered well, with the curious patient memory of the celibate, the first casual caresses her dress, her breath, her fingers had given him."

After the Race: "Daybreak, gentlemen!"

Araby: a young narrator decides to go gift shopping for a girl and accidentally has an epiphany.
"Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."


Eveline: a young woman prepares to leave home with a sailor.
"—Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!"

"An Encounter": Cowboys, Indians, and Stranger Danger.

"But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad."

"There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke."

The Sisters: Just your ordinary story about a dead reverend and his empty wine cup.