The Dead Commentary Essay Example

r the party has ended and he is alone with his wife Gretta in a hotel room, during which he feels a major shift in Gretta’s manners. He discovers she had been reminiscing about her teenage lover who had died many years ago, which puzzles, shocks, and saddens Gabriel. This revelation about Gretta’s past gives Gabriel an opportunity to examine himself, that causes him to come to terms with his own truth.

This passage concludes this story by giving his final thoughts about his new understanding of himself. In this excerpt, Joyce uses imagery, repetition and metaphors to emphasize Gabriel’s epiphany and conclude Dubliners. In the first paragraph, Joyce uses slow and steady imagery to create the feeling of every movement and thought that Gabriel has is carefully premeditated, and executed with caution. “He stretched himself cautiously along under the sheets and lay down besid