This paper aims to re-read “A Mother,” one of the short stories in James Joyce`s Dubliners, with reference to Mikhail Bakhtin`s concept of ‘polyphony,’ and to trace the way in which Joyce, as a polyphonic author, orchestrates the discourses disclosing a paralysis of the cultural society of Dublin. Bakhtin`s concept of ‘polyphony’ punctuates the presence of the author`s voice in the feuding discourses within the text. Such polyphonic novels are characterized by diverse forms of cognizance and voices unfettered by an authoritative writer. Instead of governing the story by personal impulsion, the polyphonic author functions as an organizer of “a unity as a higher order.” The story of “A Mother” is subsumed of voices vindicating individualized ideals and validities. Such examples include the mother, regarded as “the most pathetic example of a woman trying to break into a male-dominated power structure,” a national movement organization that failed in its crusade to promote propaganda due to a peremptory demand of the egocentric mother, and an author disparaging the affairs in his ‘home country.’ As an amalgamate web of conflicting voices, neither right nor wrong, this story may be prized as an archetype of Bakhtinian polyphony, whose author, functioning as a single voice, advocates unity as a higher order.