6/11/2023 0 Comments The dead james joyce epiphany![]() In a letter to the published Grant Richards, Joyce called ‘Two Gallants’ one of the most important stories in Dubliners. But as so often, this brief summary of a Dubliners story doesn’t capture the suggestiveness of Joyce’s writing, or his attention to everyday detail. The story ends with the arrival of a new day, at ‘daybreak’. ![]() The protagonist, Jimmy Doyle, and his European friends walk around Dublin, go to dinner at a hotel, talk about politics and music among other things, and then catch the train to the harbour where they go to a yacht and proceed to get drunk dancing and playing cards. She wordlessly turns round and goes home, leaving Frank to board the ship alone.Īs its title suggests, ‘After the Race’ focuses on what happens after a motorcar race has finished, over the rest of the day – and throughout the same night. But as she is just about to board the ship, Eveline suffers a failure of resolve, and cannot go through with it. Eveline is tired of this life, and so she and Frank book onto a ship leaving for Argentina. ![]()
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