In Jennifer Levine’s dialogue, Jock proposes that the last line of “Ivy Day” contains “a report about speech” instead of direct quotation because “this is a way of putting a frame around Crofton’s words and saying to the reader: come over here with me and look at what this fellow just said” (284). I looked around in the other stories for more examples of this style of dialogue. In Araby, the most notable example is the portrayal of the speech of Mangan’s sister. She has only one directly quoted line (“—It’s well for you, she said.”) Everything else she says (which admittedly isn’t much) is reported to us by the narrator. Then, in “The Dead,” much of the party guest’s conversation before the meal is reported instead of directly quoted (though of course Gabriel’s entire speech is reported in exact detail.) What do you make of Joyce’s decisions to use different methods of representing speech in these moments? Another thing that interested me was the way that the more indirect way of reporting speech blurs the lines between narration and dialogue. There are some places in the text where I really wasn’t sure if I was reading something another character said or the narrator’s thoughts regarding that character. Do you think this confusion is part of the intended effect of this technique? What other effects does it have? Do you agree with Jock’s answer as to why it is used in the last line of “Ivy Day”?