A painful case

A Painful Case A Painful Case is written by James Joyce as part of his collection of short stories Dubliners and was published in 1914. The story centers around Mr. Duffy, a middle-aged man who leads a very lonely existent, but in an organized way, outside of Dublin. Mr. Duffy is introvert and has small pleasures in life, which is reading and writing, his days runs schematic working as bank clerk eating his lunch and dinner the same places day in and day out occasional indulging in going to a concert out of his love for Mozart. One day he