Maria in “Clay” of Dubliners by James Joyce is characteristic of “the wounded healer.” She has a witch-like face, which refers to her Existential wound. Because of her face, gazing subjects objectify her as a witch, which means, as for Maria, she is not to be married. Her face is equivalent to an inexorable Existential condition. It follows that she has become a stranger who needs to be welcome with her company cooperating to make her “a veritable peacemaker” and “my proper mother.” Being the object of their compassion, however, she chooses to make peace among her communities. She has been willingly sent for women’s quarrels and taken the trouble to bring “something special” to Joe and his wife. Although those acts look meager, she has tried to mend the relationship with not always successful results. She exerts Existential effort for the improvement even under the paralyzing force of the objectifying gazes. She testifies to an ethical attitude toward life. In that sense, she is a wounded healer.