The Dubliners: Summary The book , The Dubliners by James Joyce, is a series of short stories that together unfold different stories of life and death . The first three stories, The Sisters, An Encounter, and Araby are said to be about the moments of growth and of realizations of the boy-narrators. The three of them, in fact, conclude with the awareness of the protagonist of being trapped in the visual world of print. The first story, The Sisters, is about a boy who is constantly being trained by a priest, Father Flynn, to memorize and practice the mysteries of the Churchıs rituals. When the boy realizes that the priest has passed away he shows no kind of mournful emo