1. Arc of Stories:

• Childhood - first 3 stories

• Adolescence - next 3 stories

• Maturity - next 5 stories

• Public Life -next 4 stories

2. Recurring Images:

• Enclosure

• Arrest - paralysis

• Movement in space - the foregrounding of action amidst paralysis

3. Irony as a principle method:

• it contrives to expose what it pretends to endorse

4. Epiphanies:

• Dubliners originally conceived as 10 epiphanies - each or 10 stories built around a single epiphany

• Joyce later changed this, adding 5 more stories and placing more than one epiphany in some of the stories

5. Language - Joyce's unique style:

• sentence structure

• dialogue

• precursor to stream of consciousness technique

6. Treatment of sexuality:

• repressed

• explicitly treated

7. Religious Elements:

• images

• ideas