An Encounter by James Joyce - "Dubliners" Short Story Summary, Analysis, Review

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[@DebMcDonald]

Dubliners is my favourite Joyce! Can’t wait for The Dead…I watch the movie every December. “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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[@dakotashanenunley6928]

Reading has been a solitary activity and experience for me for so long-finding your channel has been such a breath of fresh air. I feel like I’m not reading/enjoying these stories alone anymore. Thanks guys! 🙏

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[@melisaferreira1632]

I think it's a story about overcoming fear (paralysis) through the loss of innocense

[@TheNerdyNarrative]

I bought Dubliners - I need to get it on the schedule somewhere for 2023. I have enjoyed every one you’ve covered that I’ve seen here on the channel so far - I’ll have to go back and weigh in on each one after I read them!

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[@lively_saumya]

I have started reading Dubliners and came across your channel, truly grateful to both of you for discussing Dubliners so thoroughly. Also, I have read a couple of stories [The sisters & Eveline] but this one [An Encounter] till now is actually full of multiple layers that demand to be unravelled. And, yes I do agree with you on that epiphany because of that ending...Oh, man! it just leaves you with a lot to sink in. Haha :D

[@CristinaCAnsbjerg]

I can't believe you didn't comment anything about escaping. Count how many times Joyce wrote the word 'escape' in this short story. It even becomes repetitive when the cat tries to escape from Mahony. The narrator wants to escape school, he mentions going abroad, then he wants to escape the old creepy man. For me there's a constant feeling of being trapped.

[@Dimebag91]

Thanks for the content and insights. My interpretation of the old man at the end of story is that he’s a hypocrite-as the kid tells us too-and Dubliners at the time could’ve saved Parnell but couldn’t because the church was so powerful when he was accused of adultery. Joyce was pretty pissed about the dubliners’ “hypocrisy” and makes it clear in Cyclops episode in Ulysses (the unnamed narrator and Citizen)-this is how I was able to interpret this.

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Thanks for sharing!

[@Dimebag91]

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[@Starscreamlive]

Been a while since I read Dubliners, but this was one of the stories I vividly remember.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Dat ending…

[@BookishTexan]

Great Job, as always.

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[@jamesstout6280]

Modern take would be the old man would be asking the kids if they wanted some candy 😂

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