A review by casspro
Dubliners by James Joyce

2.0

There were some stories in this collection that I felt were so lovely and sad. Eveline, Araby, and Little Cloud were some of my favorites. But the majority of the stories seemed very stereotypical of the "drunken and sad, fighting Irish". I've read other Irish writers, and while they also have this sense of melancholy, I don't remember them to have this sense of slow motion. Joyce has been viewed as the classic Irish writer, so it's possible the stereotypes are just the scope we as modern readers apply to the stories. Joyce wrote what he knew, but over the years those lives became tropes. Which may be sadder than the actual stories themselves.