James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 and died in Zurich in 1941 after one of the most controversial and luminous literary careers of the twentieth century. From his early work, the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the short stories collected in Dubliners, to ...

The realistic setting of the time and place in the three first paragraphs enables the reader to identify with the protagonist of the story, the young boy. In the opening of the story, James Joyce carefully described the protagonist's neighborhood and surroundings with the use of real names like "No...