At the end of the story Gabriel comes to the realization that he has failed to find true love or passion in his life, and that he is on track to live a meaningless life and die a meaningless death. He is very interested in England and the continent, and generally detests Dublin life. Additionally Gabriel is distracted by nostalgia, and fails to find passion in the present. However, he allows his male pride and desire for female validation to distract him from having meaningful interactions with women, and he often fails to see how his words and actions affect the female characters. His aunts continually praise him and he runs small errands for them in return. Gabriel seeks validation from the women in his life. As suggested by Whelan, this story is deeply influenced by Irish history: One of the chief discoveries of this excavation is the buried history of the Famine embedded at its center. A Summary and Analysis of James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Dead’ is the most critically acclaimed and widely studied story in James Joyce’s Dubliners, a collection of 15 short stories written by James Joyce and published in 1914. He is Kate and Julia’s favorite nephew, and the son of their sister, Ellen, who has died. Joyce’s The Dead shows the lifestyles of the Irish middle class in Dublin in the late 1800s. Gabriel’s name, which means “man of God” in Hebrew, carries Biblical significance, as it is the name of the angel who announces the coming of the Messiah to the Virgin Mary. The story’s protagonist, a middle-aged Dublin teacher and writer.
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