teachinsci 's review for:

Dubliners by James Joyce

2.0

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By and large, I found this to be an unrewarding read. Joyce seems to abhor conclusions and I kept looking for connections between the stories that were rarely to never there. Two stories did stand out from the rest in my eyes, A Painful Case, and The Dead. Both had the same themes as other stories in the book, but to my eyes the loss, longing, and loneliness in these two stories crystallized into something truly meaningful and touching. In fact, it is these two stories which lead me to give the book as a whole two stars instead of just one.