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Privées de vacances ! #Shorts. 88K views. Bienvenue sur la chaîne officielle des Sisters !Marine, 7 ans, est encore une petite fille candide tandis que Wendy, 13 ans, est en pleine crise d ...
"The Sisters" is a short story by James Joyce, the first of a series of short stories called Dubliners. Originally published in the Irish Homestead on 13 August 1904, "The Sisters" was Joyce's first published work of fiction.
A young narrator recalls his relationship with Father Flynn, a local priest who died after several strokes. The narrator observes the priest's corpse and the reactions of his sisters and other mourners at the wake.
A short story about a young boy's relationship with a corrupt priest who dies of a stroke. The narrator reflects on his memories of Father Flynn, his own curiosity about death, and his doubts about the Catholic faith.
The sisters are simple, good, poor, and humble, but their explanation for their brother's illness is self-deluding and irrational. In them and the impressionable young narrator, Joyce depicts an Ireland in the yoke of a tyranny that is mental rather than political.
The Sisters. THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly.
The Sisters is a 2005 film starring Maria Bello, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Erika Christensen as the title characters; it also stars Alessandro Nivola, Rip Torn, Eric McCormack, Steven Culp, Tony Goldwyn and Chris O'Donnell.
