Essays on The Dead
The characters in this intriguing short story are interpreted by the smallest of details. The way they look, hair styles, gestures, and the way the respond to others. Of all of the people that attended the Christmas party, main character Gabriel Conroy conveyed a reason to pay attention to him and his story. When Gabriel...
In the late 12th century Ireland was conquered by Britain; the invasion was called the Norman Conquest and was undertaken by the Anglo-Normans which was the ruling class in England. Ireland, like many other nations that were taken over by imperialists often gets compared to other nations Britain occupied. Ireland has identified with the Catholic...
In the short story, The Dead from the novel Dubliners by James Joyce, readers are led through a bustling, yet uniform, dinner party by, who I identify as the protagonist, Gabriel Conroy. He is an intelligent, impersonal, “cold-air” solitary man who is continually found present in his thoughts, rather than mentally present in the majority...
