First, it helps to be
aware that the short story, "," comes from a book of short works written by , and this
book is called . Therefore, it makes sense to assume the stories it
contains are all about various folk who live in Dublin, Ireland, the city in which Joyce himself
was born and raised. Additionally, the first line of the story refers to the narrator's
childhood home's location on North Richmond Street, a road located in Dublin.
It is likely that the main events of the story took place in the early years of the
twentieth century, given the descriptions of homes, schools, and daily life, though the speaker
narrates these events from some time in the future, when he is an adult, using a first person
objective point of view.
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