Suspicious Readings of Joyce's "Dubliners"Because the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners seem to function as models of fiction, they are able to stand in for fiction in general in their ability to make the operation of texts explicit and visible. Joyce's stories do this by provoking skepticism in the face of their storytelling. Their narrative unreliabilitiesproduced by strange gaps, omitted scenes, and misleading narrative promptsarouse suspicion and oblige the reader to distrust how and why