![]() ![]() ("The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.") He can only thrust a coin at her to resolve an awkward situation, and even this gesture is more insulting than considerate. As Lily, the caretaker's daughter, helps him off with his overcoat, he jokes that she will probably be married someday soon, but he is confused and taken aback by her bitter reply. The story is a triumph of literary modernism.ĭespite the fact that Gabriel would seem to be confident and in charge, things do not go well for him right from the start. ![]() It is in Gabriel's interactions with several of the guests and in his talk with Gretta in their hotel room after the gathering that Joyce presents a portrait of a representative, ineffectual twentieth-century consciousness. Gabriel is relied upon annually to keep things in order and to provide the traditional after-dinner speech. Gabriel and his wife, Gretta, are attending a holiday party given each year by his aunts Kate and Julia Morkan and their niece Mary Jane. ![]() It centers on the consciousness of Gabriel Conroy, a teacher and literary man in turn of the century Dublin. ![]() "The Dead" is the capstone story of James Joyce's Dubliners, first published in 1914. ![]()
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