Introduction
This paper is an attempt to analyse the short story ‘The Sisters', by James Joyce and to establish some of the multiple possible relations with the other stories in Dubliners.

‘The Sisters' is the first short story in Dubliners. If we divide the stories according to the stages in life in Dublin –‘childhood, adolescence, adulthood and public life' –, ‘The Sisters' belongs to the period of childhood, as well as ‘An Encounter' and ‘Araby'.
The first paragraph sets the tone not only of ‘The Sisters', but also of the whole collection of stories:
‘There was no hope for him this time. (…) I said softly to myself the word paralysis.'
In the first paragraph we can relate some words as semantically linked. Such words are: dead, corpse, idle and paralysis. All of them mean ‘absence of movement'. Although the word ‘idle' in this context means ‘empty and casual', since it refers to the priest's words, playing with the polysemy of this word, and if we connect......

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Title: Joyce's 'The Sisters'
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1. Christian Symbolism In James Joyce's The Sisters
   

   Christian Symbolism in James Joyce's The Sisters. James Joyce's "The Sisters"
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2. Joyce's 'The Sisters'
   

   Joyce's 'The Sisters'. Introduction This paper is an attempt to analyse the
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3. Joyce's Beloved
   

   ... From the start, this clash between the living and the dead shows up in Joyce's The
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4. Themes Used In Jamejoyce's The Sisters
   

   ... Joyce's attitude toward death is complex. In "The Sisters," for example, physical
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5. Sybolism In Araby
   

   ... Robinson, D (1987). The Narration of Reading in Joyce's 'The Sisters,' 'An Encounter,'
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