![]() ![]() He reveals the secrecy of adult plays although theprotagonist seems to resist facing it at that time. The last play in this story is the encounter with ‘an old josser.’ The old man is a type of a perverse god and the encounter is vaguely and ingeniously described by the narrator. We follow them and find their meanings important for Joyce’s text criticism. There are several more plays described precisely in this story. It is not only a mere war game but also a mimic play which leads the colonial children to be good, brave warriors for the British Empire. ![]() This is after what the boys’ magazines describes. The second play is the war game played by the boy protagonist and his friends. They are tools to teach children to fight bravely against British enemies. The first play is concerned with reading boys’ magazines such as The Halfpenny Marvel which promote bravery, courage and battles against enemies. This paper analyzes the text, again, by concentrating on the children’s plays as well as with the suggestions by those critics before us, and finds multiple phases of them. Several children’s plays are written here, but there seems to be no study which systematically or fully researches the phases and meanings of these plays. ‘An Encounter’ is included in the second of childhood stories in James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914). ![]()
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