“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

Introduction

Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta attend the annual ball of the Morkan sisters, his two old aunts, the host, Kate and Julia Morkan. The hosts plays piano, and sing as they dance and eaten. Then Gabriel holds a speech in honor of the sisters Morkan. Gabriel brings his wife to the party in a hotel and asks her about their apathetic mood. She tells him of Furley, who died for them. Gabriel is jealous of another man, whose is very importance in Gretta's early life, which he knew nothing about. Gabriel realizes how less important he is to Gretta as he recognizes the difference between the gradual decay. Sister Morkan is at work, and is going to die soon, and is to be followed by the heroic, passionate Furley's death. Interpretation of the Position within the history of the “Dublin”, “The Dead” is the last story from the “Dublin” series. The topic is fully discussed around death. In “The Sisters”, the first story is about a boy has his first confrontation with death when his old friend, a paralytic priest dies (Schwarz, Daniel R. James Joyce, Pp. 09 - 36).

The Dead” as a slice-of-life story”

“The Dead” is a story of everyday life, a slice-of-life story. The plot is more or less a common place and banal. Yet a turning point in Gabriel's life is described. A summary of the external action of “The Dead” alone is not the story of justice. It is all about the ideas and mental processes in the main characters, especially those of Gabriel and his wife. The significance of the story reveals itself to the reader from the end, where Gabriel and readers are clear about the meaning of Gretta's inexplicable mood. When I first read the long description of the processes during the ball Morkan siblings after the fact, evident in the final pages, on re-reading I was able to discover details in reference to the subject of the story and related to thing, just before the scene in the hotel.

Symbolism in “The Dead”

Symbolism in “The Dead”, occupies a central role in the history of music. The two sisters, Julia and Kate, and their niece Mary Jane is all musicians. Mr. Bartell D'Arcy is a tenor. It is sung, played piano and danced. Mary Jane is playing her Academy piece, a technically difficult piano piece, the Gabriel and the other guests will tuneless. Then they accompanied Julia, “a bride adorned” sings, probably an adaptation of the wedding chorus from Wagner's “Flying Dutchman”. A statement against the narrowness of his country's ardent nationalists, or is it more simply an eloquent reminder of, and touching tribute to, those who necessarily define us--the souls who preceded us on Earth? It is this last notion that inspired Nelson most. “All of life is made up of dead people,” he says. “We are the sons of the people who've died before us. The guests are thrilled Julia has probably put a lot of emotion ...