The novel Such Is My Beloved by Morley Callaghan has a distinct relation to the story "Grace" in Dubliners by James Joyce, and the relation throws light on Callaghan's influences, on the interpretation of his novel, as well as the part played by the Roman Catholic Church in his fiction. Both authors are concerned with the separation of Christianity and the bourgeois world; both are concerned with what "grace" is as an assistance to virtuous action; and both use a character called "Dowling." Thus, based on these similarities, Callaghan scholars might be invited to look more closely at Joyce as a source and influence in matters of style and ironic form as well as in matters of situation and character out of which his fiction has sometimes been modelled.
