Abstract
Like a number of other Dubliners stories, Two Gallants is uncertain on the level of significance because it is fundamentally uncertain on the level of narrative and plot. The story strategically withholds some crucial information from the reader that obliges us to construct a crude scenario of what we think is going on. This scenario-that a repellent young man doubly despoils a young servant girl of virtue and money-is readily supported by the story's central trope of a Celtic harp and its mournful song (Silent, O'Moyle! ... Lir's loneliest daughter / Tells to the night-star her tale of woe [qtd. in Gifford 59]) to produce an equally crude allegory of Ireland's colonial degradation figured as a complicitous surrender to sexual predation:
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