![]() ![]() ‘The Dead’ which happens to be the longest short story in Dubliners is often termed as a novella owing to its length of more than 15000 words in which most of the words have been spent on describing the physical world. Not just ‘The Dead’ but in all the other stories of Dubliner, one can find paragraphs written just about the physical background or the setting of events in a story. Joyce understood the significance of the physical space in prose and would be very descriptive about them. He characteristically wrote about Dublin in all his works almost all his stories, characters etc. The Dubliners are one of the finest collection of short stories by James Joyce, who is considered to be the master of prose when some go on to compare him next to only William Shakespeare and John Milton. The description of the atmosphere of the story is so vivid in every step of the development of the plot that it fuels the mind of the reader and creates a detailed image. ![]()
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