Why was Dubliners so humourless?

It very wasn't, was it?

>>9383194
Portrait is very humorless too. Joyce was quite a stuck up guy while writing them, they're both very good but he expected them to be hailed as very good, to change everyone's mind and lifestyle and realize how trite their lives were, more or less.

Clearly, not only did this not really happen (he didn't get the attention he wanted with those works), but they both had to get rejected by many publishers before being published.

I think this is what finally caused Jimmy to go half-insane with Ulysses and decide to make it as infuriating, comical, and over-the-top a book as possible.

>>9383194
you're a queer yosser

I didn't really get it myself. Are they just going for the creation of an atmosphere or is there a larger point to the whole thing? Kind of feels like eating an expensive dessert in a way.

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>>9383194
British oppression = a barrel of laughs.

>>9383434
I think Dubliners is a very nice window into Dublin during the turn of the century. It's a Courbet painting formed by sentences.

>>9383434
Joyce wanted to point out flaws in Dublins society of the time.

>>9383194
I found it to be humorous, just in a bitter kind of way