# Mrs. Emily Sinico — Dubliners character guide

> Mrs. Emily Sinico in Dubliners by James Joyce.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mrs. Sinico, Miss Mary Sinico

**First appearance:** 0010-a-painful-case

## Who they are

A lonely woman who befriends Mr. Duffy and later dies in a railway accident.

## In the story

### [A Painful Case](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dubliners_se/chapters/a-painful-case)

A lonely woman who forms a deep emotional connection with Mr. Duffy; her passionate gesture is rebuffed, and she dies four years later in a railway accident, leaving Duffy to grapple with his role in her demise.

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