Part 1 of Essay
(1914) by James Joyce Introduction Joyce said that in "" his intention was "to write a chapter in the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed to me the centre of paralysis".The 15 stories which make up the collection are studies on the decay and banality of lower middle-class u ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... in the committee room Clay A mother *** PUBLIC LIFE Counterparts *** MATURE LIFE Grace A painful case And then the last story,"The dead",is longer,subtler and it can be cosidered as Joyce's 1st masterpiece. Themes Though,at first glance,the stories seem simply to be realistic,objective descriptions of everyday life,they are psychologically eventful.The psychological action often takes the form of an EPIPHANY in which a commonplace action or object brings a character an unexpected revelation truth and a deep unde ....