Language is simple and straight-forward. Scenery, external and internal sensations, hopes and fears: all descriptions flow along together. Voice is omniscient narrator but only focused on the actions and happenings around and internal world of the main character. Story is sad. Man is sick, starving, hurt, and exhausted. Wolf too. Both are dying. Science men […]

[We also wrote a response-story: Another Cotter Story] “The Sisters” is the first story in James Joyce’s story collection Dubliners (published 1914; the first version of the story published 1904 in The Irish Homestead. The 1904 version is better). The story is a recollected first person account. The narrator was a boy at the time […]