![]() ![]() In my opinion, Michael’s living memory inside Gretta grants him alone the opportunity to be the "living" person among all the "dead" ones in Dublin society who sickly suffered from paralysis.To me, the dead refers to everyone at the Morkan’s party but Michael Furey. ![]() To others, "The Dead" signifies everyone at the Morkan's party but Gabriel, and through association, everyone in Ireland.Some critics argued that the dead refers to Gretta's tragic love, Michael Furey. ![]() All the stories in this volume incorporate epiphanies.Dubliners, his early volume of short stories, functions as an analysis of the stagnation and paralysis of Dublin society.The Irish environment of Joyce created his sense in writing and provided all of the settings for his fiction. Joyce says:"My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis".It was made into a film also entitled The Dead in 1987, directed by John Huston. ![]()
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