How did joyce organize the fifteen stories in dubliners?

Joyce organized the stories by the age of the protagonists.

Explanation:

Dubliners is a collection of stories about Irish middle class at the beginning of 20th century.

James Joyce, the author, decided to divide the collection of fifteen stories into three different sections related to the age of the protagonists. The first section dealt with childhood, the second one with adolescence and the last section focused on maturity.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.