Reflection

Joyce once said that the creative purpose of The Dubliners was: "It is to write his own chapter for the moral and spiritual history of our country". But I think that the mental state of the Dublin people revealed by Joyce's keen observation is also that of all mankind, especially in modern society. For example, the fact that the decline of the Catholic faith implied in "Sisters" and "Holy grace" is both a phenomenon of Dublin and a phenomenon of the secularization of human thought throughout the modernization of the world. And isn't the little clerk insulted by his boss in "a Little Cloud" a microcosm of the people oppressed by capital in the modern capitalist society? And "Pain Events," the idea of an intellectual that kept itself independent, probably sees similar traces in the minds of all their own intellectuals. In short, Joyce, who grew up in Dublin, will undoubtedly have traces of environmental influence in his works, but we must not treat The Dublin Man only as a regional novel. Reading from a perspective of human starting point, will undoubtedly bring us greater enlightenment.