I agree with the quote made by you Mr. B. This prompt has qualities featured in “The Dead” by James Joyce. The author begins the story by using realism. Realism depicts surface details, common actions, and minor catastrophes of middle-class society constituted the chief subject matter of the movement. The setting is taking place at an annual dance and dinner party hosted by the Morkan family. The story line starts off has a hard read because it doesn’t grab the reader’s attention until the last couple of paragraphs.
The main character featured in “The Dead” is Gabriel, nephew of Julia and Kate Morkan. Gabriel is an educator and a writer. During this dinner Gabriel shows characteristics of having a temper and controlling. As he prepares to
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This opens his eyes because he believed that they were each other’s first love. When Gretta tells the story of Michael Furey and how his love for her caused him to die, Gabriel has two epiphanies. He realized that he had never felt the love that Michael Fury had towards Gretta or any other women. “He had never felt like that himself towards any women but he knew that such a feeling must be love”. Another epiphany occurs when Gabriel contemplates his own mortality and realizes that death is inevitable. Hearing the story of Michael Furey, who died so young lead Gabriel to the conclusion that death is all around us. “Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.” He then goes on and states, “It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried.” He realizes that his believe about not fretting over the memory of the dead was wrong. It just showed his lack of feelings and flaws