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The sisters

Riassunto

Il protagonista di questo racconto è un bambino amico di un vecchio prete che amava insegnargli tutto quello che sapeva. Da un po' di tempo, però, il prete non è più lui: è taciturno, nervoso, se ne sta sempre da solo. Le sue due sorelle raccontano che è "un uomo deluso" e che già da un po' hanno notato qualcosa di strano in lui; ad esempio, una volta è scomparso e, quando alla fine lo hanno trovato che rideva da solo nel confessionale, hanno capito subito che c'era qualcosa che non funzionava nel suo cervello. Poco tempo dopo muore di paralisi.

Summary

It is 1895 in Dublin, Ireland when an unnamed boy comes down to supper one evening. Family friend Old Cotter is telling the boy's aunt and uncle that the boy's mentor, Father James Flynn, has passed away after a third stroke. The two men share the opinion that spending time with Father Flynn was unhealthy for the boy, who should have been playing "with young lads of his own age." In bed later, the boy tries to understand why Old Cotter and his uncle would not want him to associate with Father Flynn; then he imagines or dreams about the priest trying to confess something to him.

The following morning, the boy visits Father Flynn's house and finds a card displayed outside announcing the man's death, but he does not knock on the door. He feels less sad than he would have expected; in fact, the boy experiences "a sensation of freedom" as a result of his mentor's death. That evening, the boy's aunt takes him on a formal visit to the house of mourning. He sees the body of Father Flynn lying in an open casket, after which the boy's aunt and the priest's two sisters converse cryptically about the deceased, implying that he was mentally unstable for some time before dying and that he may have been involved in some scandal or other.






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