Dubliners

The 15 short stories in James Joyce's "The Dubliners" have shattered my inherent impression of short stories: no matter how small the length is, one can see clearly marked descriptions of passersby, seemingly trivial narratives without themes that are thought-provoking, and he writes about reality without seeing satirical words. Joyce said, “My intention is to write a chapter in the moral history of my country, and the reason for setting the story in Dublin is because this city seems to be the center of 'moral paralysis'. I want to present it to the public from four aspects: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and social life, where the stories are arranged in this order Social life in Dublin: Memorial Day, Holy Grace, Mother and the Dead illustrate the multidimensional Dublin social circle from the inevitable themes of politics, religion, Money worship and death. The first and last articles both describe death, and both focus on the meaning of children and adults obtaining "liberation" from death. The connection between the beginning and end seems to express a mindset that everything can be ignored in the face of death. "He heard snowflakes floating gently in the universe, as gently as they landed on the living and the dead, and then his soul slowly fell asleep, Inexplicably stabbed into one's own heart, obtaining a selfless relief.

Reading "The Dubliners" is like opening up a picture of the world's various forms of "Qingming River". For a moment, readers cannot find the protagonist in the painting, but it is all the people in the painting that together constitute the true theme of this painting: life in all its forms, life in bloom. People don't want to put it down when they read it.

2023-06-14

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