— Overview
The notes stay with that story and with Joyce’s way of telling it, and they stop before a later list of terms.
— Contents and key concepts
A boy, and a priest near death
The notes take up one story from James Joyce’s Dubliners: The Sisters. In it, they write, a young boy’s attempt to slip free of a trap in his own consciousness is replaced, through the death of a priest, by religion.
The retired priest Father Flynn shows signs of serious attacks and of complete paralysis. A boy, not yet in adolescence, who had been close to him, watches the old priest near death and falls into monologue.
A story of childhood in Dubliners
They treat The Sisters as a story of Joyce’s childhood period. His work in Dubliners, they write, is commonly divided into childhood, youth, adulthood and later years, and the features of that work show themselves in this story as well.
Two figures, and where the notes stop
The figures they keep in view are the narrator and Father Flynn. Around those two, they write, the story’s manner of telling, and its symbols, can be read.
The notes leave the book there, before a later list of terms. The same Korean report, in a longer form, is on CampusDown.
Sources
- The notes, a student reading of Joyce’s The Sisters in Dubliners that stays with a boy narrator and Father Flynn.
Last updated: 15 November 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which story do the notes take from Dubliners?
The Sisters. James Joyce is named. A boy narrator watches a retired priest, Father Flynn, who falls into serious attacks and complete paralysis, and the boy slips into monologue as the old man nears death.
How do they place the story in Joyce’s work?
They treat The Sisters as belonging to Joyce’s childhood period. His stories in Dubliners, they write, are often divided into childhood, youth, adulthood and later years, and this one sits with the first.
Where do they stop?
After that telling, and after a look at the narrator and Father Flynn as the two figures the story turns on. They leave a later list of terms unused.
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