The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby:â Themes, Symbolism, and Changeâ â â â â â â â âThe short stories gathered in Dubliners are for the most part antecedents and portrayals of James Joyce's later works. The Sisters is the same. It, alongside An Encounter and Araby, are drawn from Joyce's own recollections and assessments. The little fellow and the attributes of these short stories are a roundabout examining of Joyce's next distributed work, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a novel generally composed from his own memory. The Sisters, by James Joyce, is a story that blends unworldly relationship with a mean to instruct with reasonable undertaking, uncovering certainties of life and passing. â â â â â â â â â â This short story spins around a little fellow's battle to attest and support the passing and madness of a significant figure in his life. The storyteller shows up home to find that Father James Flynn, an associate and casual instructor of his, has quite recently died, which is nothing unexpected, for he had been incapacitated from a stroke for quite a while. Mr. Cotter, a companion of the family, and his uncle have a lot to state about the poor old cleric and the storyteller's relationship with him. The storyteller is maddened by their conviction that he's not capable, at his young age, to settle on his own choices concerning his associates and he should run about and play with youthful chaps of his own age ... That night, pictures of death frequent him; he endeavors downplay the tormenting face of the expired cleric by grinning weakly in order to negate his loathsome dreams. The next night, his family visits the place of the old minister and his two overseers, two sisters, where he lies in wake. There the storyteller must attempt to excuse his passing and the riddle of his former madness. â â â â â â â â â â The title of The Sisters is in one occurrence a straightforward title, yet it might likewise demonstrate a more prominent, progressively expressive purpose. In the first place, on an ordinary level, the title The Sisters means the two sisters, Nannie and Eliza, who have dealt with the cleric in his sickness and have assisted with masterminding the conventions of his passing - embalmment and archives of entombment and protection. The two sisters give slants of Father Flynn about the occurence in the months preceding his passing, assisting with clarifying his stricken condition, continually rehashing, Ah, poor James! Secondly, on a progressively critical and emblematic level, the title may connotate the relationship of madness to death of that of the cozy connection between sisters.