dubliners
... Dubliners is a book of short stories revolving around several totally different people from the city of Dublin, Ireland. Joyce puts these characters through a number of situations in order to show the moral characteristics of Dubliners. ... In all of the Dubliners short stories, there is a struggle to succeed. The Dubliners seem to somehow always manage never to make any improvements in their lives and never succeed in anything that they Caplenor 2 do. ... As in all the stories in Dubliners, Counterparts has a major erotic component. ... In all of the short stories of Dubliners, the characters cannot escape form either their actions or their environment.