Overall, I found the fully developed stories excellent, while the ones that are primarily character sketches are interesting if not wholly satisfying.

The book embraces and embraces a collection of fifteen short stories, including issues such as Irish history; Human beings; Death; Love; Life; Fear and . A collection of stories that some may describe as beautiful, others as boring, maybe even brilliant, but that I want to describe as “apt”. En la mayoría de estos cuentos los intentos de estos son fútiles, no alcanzan para cubrir sus necesidades, anhelos o esperanzas. The climax of the collection, a story that highlights the relativity of all of our lesser or greater concerns in relation to mortality.This is the first time I am hearing it read aloud, in the appropriately Irish voice of Connor Sheridan, that somehow captures the dry and at sometimes mournful wit the ex-patriate Joyce brings to this tribute to the Dubliners he left behind. When Joyce does tell a story, though, he tells it excellently, making me rather regret that he didn't use standard prose and story-telling techniques more often. However, as a collection, I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing, the weaker parts being more than compensated for by the stronger. Drunkenness, violence and the stifling stranglehold of the Catholic church all play their part in showing a society where aspiration is a rare commodity, usually thwarted. He’s ambitious for her, but at the same time, he sees himself clearly and sadly: “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

Duffy: “He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. Son tres cuentos profundos, escritos con suma fineza y bellísima precisión literaria y creo además que el trato que Joyce le da al contexto psicológico de los personajes es realmente maravilloso. Counterparts – Farrington, a lumbering alcoholic scrivener, takes out his frustration in pubs and on his son Tom. Lots of these pieces mention the 4-way split in overarching themes for these stories: childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life. Joyce's great skill at dialect offers a sense of the city's complex social structure, while themes of isolation, emotional paralysis, violence, regret, and death run throughout the collection and link all of the stories.

Not only do they bring to life the ancient words of their language; They also make words in their works.

Joyce published first an essay on When We Dead Awaken, play of Heinrich Ibsen, in the Fortnightly Review in 1900. Joyce’s use of symbolism and stream-of-consciousness writing contributes to the depth and complexity of each story.Further still, the overarching structure of these tales takes the reader through the different stages of life, like a disjointed Bildungsroman. Joyce's particular view of language, and the word, as the cells that make up the body of the story, is so profound and original that critics are still struggling to uncover the vague layers of his stories. The story is not only about this awareness but also about love which gets shattered, even when the man in question has been long dead, and signifies the end of life as lived by Gabriel.

The Realists view Dubliners as the most simple of Joyce's works, which often causes them to disregard the revolutionary nature of the work.La muerte sobrevuela omnipresente y poderosa en muchos de estos cuentos y el desasosiego se instala en los personajes.