Joyce`s fascination with medicine, health, and discourses on the human body is well known. He absorbed clinical attitudes, which he carried into his fiction. For example, he concludes that the malady of Ireland is hemiplegia. This essay examines Dubliners` claustrophobia and enclosedness as well as the air of claustrophobia of the city in Dubliners. In “The Boarding House,” Doran finds himself helplessly trapped into marriage. Understandably, he has the fear of not being able to break out. In “After the Race,” Jimmy Doyle is lured into Farley`s yacht, a remote and secluded venue for swindlers from which he cannot get away. Betrayed by bogus friendship, he has to lose his money in the game. Eveline, who is already trapped in the dusty house and in a life of drudgery, is offered a chance to escape in pursuit of fresh air and a new life. However, she finds herself as a helpless animal fearful of having no escape. In “Counterparts,” the twin ideological voices, imperialism and Catholicism, are so influential that individual voice is scarcely heard; hence the story`s claustrophobia. Not surprisingly, both Farrington in his office and his son at home reveal the fear of being closed in. Chandler in “A Little Cloud,” feels confined to his office of a deadening routine and his home of dull domesticity; these places are like suffocating coffins. This atmosphere of claustrophobia pervades the city of Dublin. The stories in Dubliners are either about Joyce himself or about the person he imagines himself to have become if he had stayed in Dublin. It is most probable that Joyce himself felt confined. Thus, he wanted to escape what he regarded as the intellectual claustrophobia of Ireland or three stifling claustrophobic nets of Irish life of family, church, and politics.