Joyce does not make it clear, however, what kind of change Gabriel’s revelation, or epiphany, brings in him. Conroy is presented as a rather awkward, condescending, and self-absorbed man, but he later has a moment of self-realization when his wife tells him about a relationship she had as a young girl with a youth who loved her passionately. With its meticulous detail, the story is realistic in style, focusing less on great events than on subtle symbolism. The plot of “The Dead” presents the thoughts and actions of one man, Gabriel Conroy, on a night he and his wife attend a party given by his two aunts. The prominent characteristic he saw in Ireland, and particularly in Dublin, was the spiritual paralysis of its people. In his book, Joyce wanted to give the history of Ireland. James Joyce wrote “The Dead” in 1907, three years after writing the fourteen other stories that were eventually published with it in his collection “The Dead” is the last story in the collection, and it unites the themes found in the earlier stories.
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