After The Race by James Joyce — Review

The short story “After The Race” written by the most famous Irish writer James Joyce gives readers a lot of options for interpretation. We have here the description of one day, just a few episodes of life in Irish society.

James Joyce put in the first place not a plot but something which readers may see behind the text. The site genious.com gives people a tool for giving different interpretations (see link in the last line).

For example, see how one contributor of the story describes his/her interpretation of the meaning of this work:

“The Irish cheering of the French is misplaced and plain wrong; they didn’t even win ! This demonstrates the perversion in the action of the Irish people … supporting the enemies of the England”



Here is the text of the story with interpretation of some parts of the. narration:

https://genius.com/3462563