The organization is an expansion from the first story to the last. I believe that the two stories that begin and end the collection are the most important and contain the most significant elements of Dublin life. It is very important that harvesting begins and ends with death and that we take into account how all generations are affected. In Fritz Senn's article “'He Was Too Scrupulous Always' James Joyce's 'The Sisters'” he talks about the deeper meaning of the word “paralysis”. The word is seen as “strange” by the narrator and he gives it a more literal meaning (67-68). Senn believes that "throughout his career Joyce seemed incapable of using words in only one sense" (66). Senn in his article takes a look at the deeper meaning of the word paralysis and how Joyce was able to use this word in every sense throughout “The Sisters” and also introduces “The Dead”. I choose to agree with Fritz Senn's statement that Joyce gives a deeper meaning to the word "paralysis" in his collection of Dubliners, but I will show a new idea of how paralysis affected generations that is shown in "The Sisters ", "A Mother”, “Eveline” and “The Dead”. The characters in these stories represent the idea of paralyzed generations, most likely deriving from previous generations’
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