The Dubliner in Each of Us (“The Sisters” and the logic of what is said)

Considering both published versions of James Joyce’s “The Sisters,” this essay discusses the relation between each other in order to question the validity of using the journal version (1904) to increase the intelligibility of the one published in Dubliners (1914). The analysis will attempt to demonstrate that here we may find the first flickerings of Hugh Kenner’s “The Arranger” and that the mirror Joyce intended Dubliners to be may have been transforming us critics into its own characters.Keywords: James Joyce; The Sisters; gnomon; sodomy; indeterminacy