1250 words.

Take any concept from Thomas Foster's Book and apply it to a Dubliner's Story in an analytic, . Get at a central meaning of the story as revealed through the particular literary technique you've selected from Foster's book.

 Cite all sources in MLA style. Minimum 3 quality scholarly sources beyond primary texts of Joyce and Foster.

Thesis example:  Thomas Foster writes "Weather is never just weather. It's never just rain" (70) and this is true of James Joyce's use of snow in his short story "The Dead," where Gabriel Conroy realizes the snow falling all over Ireland is a metaphor for the death that eventually will equalize all his relatives, himself, his friends and all Irish citizens, past and present.