He lives with his aunt and uncle, so there is a possibility that his parents are deceased. The narrator’s age also suggests that this is the first time in his life he has been aware of someone dying. Additionally, the sisters offer the narrator some crackers, but he declines them.īoth the priest’s paralysis and the idea of death, in general, frighten and captivate the little narrator. To sit with Nannie and the other sister, Eliza, and enjoy a modest glass of sherry, the narrator and his aunt descend the stairs.
The narrator turns to face the body, which is not grinning but is “loosely retaining a chalice” and wearing his priestly vestments. Nannie takes them upstairs, where they kneel and pray by the body. The narrator visits Father Flynn and his two sisters in the evening with his aunt to pay his respects. Cotter’s remarks from the night before and the dream he can’t quite place. He recalls the occasions when his aunt would deliver him to Father Flynn’s residence with a box of snuff that Father Flynn would smear on his clerical clothes and all the lessons Father Flynn had imparted to him, including Latin, European history, and church rituals and traditions. The narrator passes Father Flynn’s house the following morning and notices the death notice posted on the door. The narrator has dreamy visions of Father Flynn’s “grey visage” trying to whisper a confession to him at night. The child stays silent since he is aware that everyone is waiting for his response.Īt this moment, the narrator starts eating and stops listening to Mr. Old Cotter has arrived at the residence to inform everyone of Father Flynn’s passing. The youngster visits his aunt and uncle one night for dinner and finds his uncle and an acquaintance of the family, Old Cotter, sitting by the fire. He never enters the house, instead choosing to stand outside and reflect on the priest’s immobility. After hearing this news, the youngster walks past Father Flynn’s house every night in search of the reflection of candles in the window, which would signal that he is no longer alive. The young kid who serves as the child narrator discovers that Father Flynn, a retired priest who stays with his aunt and uncle, is passing away after having a stroke. The Sisters by James Joyce (Summary and Analysis)
Most of his short stories were compiled into his first book, ‘Dubliners.’ James Joyce believed in spending a lot of time fleshing out the details of his story as he did with ‘Ulysses.’ James Joyce published only four books in his lifetime - ‘Dubliners,’ ‘A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man,’ ‘Ulysses,’ and ‘Finnegans Wake.’ The rest of his oeuvre comprised short stories and poems.
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