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* GuideDangIt: The full rules of the party game in "Clay" are not explained, the reader has to infer from the title of the story that the final object in the game was a piece of clay, and infer from peoples' reactions that it's a bad omen (death).
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* GuideDangIt: The full rules of the party game in "Clay" are not explained, the reader has to infer from the title of the story that the final object in the game was a piece of clay, and infer from peoples' reactions that it's a bad omen (death).
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* GuideDangIt: The full rules of the party game in "Clay" are not explained, the reader has to infer from the title of the story that the final object in the game was a piece of clay, and infer from peoples' reactions that it's a bad omen (death).
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: It's implied that the man from "An Encounter" does this after talking to the boys.
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* ''The Sisters''
* ''An Encounter''
* ''Araby''
* ''Eveline''
* ''After the Race''
* ''Two Gallants''
* ''The Boarding House''
* ''A Little Cloud''
* ''Counterparts''
* ''Clay''
* ''A Painful Case''
* ''Ivy Day in the Committee Room''
* ''A Mother''
* ''Grace''
* ''The Dead''
* ''An Encounter''
* ''Araby''
* ''Eveline''
* ''After the Race''
* ''Two Gallants''
* ''The Boarding House''
* ''A Little Cloud''
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* ''A Painful Case''
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* ''A Mother''
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* MeaningfulName: In "Counterparts," as Farrington is beating up his kid, the boy begs for mercy not to, and even promises to say a ''Hail Mary''. Cut to the next story, "Clay," where the main character's name is Maria (which is a form of the name Mary), who is looked up to by everyone as a motherly figure.
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** In "Counterparts," as Farrington is beating up his kid, the boy begs for mercy not to, and even promises to say a ''Hail Mary''. Cut to the next story, "Clay," where the main character's name is Maria (which is a form of the name Mary), who is looked up to by everyone as a motherlyfigure.figure.
** In "The Dead", Gretta's husband Gabriel and deceased former lover Michael both share names [[ArchangelGabriel with]] [[ArchangelMichael archangels]].
** In "Counterparts," as Farrington is beating up his kid, the boy begs for mercy not to, and even promises to say a ''Hail Mary''. Cut to the next story, "Clay," where the main character's name is Maria (which is a form of the name Mary), who is looked up to by everyone as a motherly
** In "The Dead", Gretta's husband Gabriel and deceased former lover Michael both share names [[ArchangelGabriel with]] [[ArchangelMichael archangels]].
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* MeddlingParents: The mother in "A Mother" behaves like her daughter's artist agent.
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* NeatFreak: Mr. Duffy.
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* NeatFreak: Deconstructed with Mr. Duffy.Duffy in "A Painful Case", who's so obsessively neat about his well-ordered life that he can't handle the fact that Mrs. Sinico is attracted to him, and on the first hint of this, he breaks off his friendship with her.
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* WackySoundEffect: A literary example in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room". They have no corkscrew to open the bottles of stout, so Mr Henchy puts them by the fire, and the slight expansion of the gas inside the bottle makes the corks fly out with a ''Pok!'' noise. This is juxtaposed with the conversation of the men, the implication being that they're as full of hot gases as the beer bottles are.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Mr Henchy in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" badmouths Joe Hynes behind his back as a spy for the other side, and only grudgingly withdraws his remarks when someone else protests, but when Hynes comes back, Henchy praises him as a loyal supporter of Parnell.
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* [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign As Long As It Sounds Irish]]: Scholars have debated for decades what "Derevaun seraun" means in "Eveline". Multiple specious interpretations have been suggested, but as far as anyone can tell, it's just nonsense words that sound like Irish. It's not out of the question that Joyce [[TrollingCreator did it deliberately.]]
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Little Chandler feels this way in "A Little Cloud" about his successful friend Ignatius, who has lived a full life abroad.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Little Chandler feels this way in "A Little Cloud" about his successful friend Ignatius, who has lived a full life abroad.abroad--or so Chandler would like to think. It's implied that Ignatius might be a SmallNameBigEgo.
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* TheAlcoholic: Farrington, who's implied to be hungover at work, causing him to make a mistake in the copying of a legal document which forces him to redo it all over again.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: It's subtly implied that Ignatius Gallaher in "A Little Cloud" is this. His talk about all the decadence and corrupt goings-on that he's seen is rather vague, and the only detailed story that he tells is one that "he knew to be true", meaning we only have his word for it. He's also implied to be a heavy drinker (he has an "unhealthy pallor") and his claim that he only hasn't got married because he intends to marry a rich woman is far from convincing; more likely, it's because no rich woman in London wants to marry a balding, impoverished emigré journalist.
