![]() Because what are we here for, on this planet, except to love one another? The encounter that the two young boys playing hookie have in this story is incredibly creepy, and I suppose acts as some kind of warning to our young narrator. ![]() And I suppose if you look at ‘An Encounter’ in that light (which I couldn’t help but doing – that letter Joyce wrote to Nora came into my mind immediately when I re-read the story last night) – it’s quite a tragic story. He felt that the rigidity of the morality in Ireland caused love and intimacy to become twisted and sick. There’s that one letter Joyce wrote to Nora – before they de-camped forever – something about “nobody can touch each other here” … He didn’t just mean sexually, although that was part of his meaning. ![]() The only opportunities are outside of Ireland. In ‘An Encounter’, we start to see Joyce’s feelings about Ireland – and what it has to offer to its young sons. Although I suppose you can say that the priest in ‘The Sisters’ – who loses it (mentally) after breaking a chalice – also has to do with spiritual death. Only this one has to do with spiritual death. ![]() ![]() Dubliners – by James Joyce – excerpt from the second story in the collection: “An Encounter”.Ī creepy little story that follows on the heels of the death-theme in ‘The Sisters’, the story before it. ![]()
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