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The Dead Gabriel Conroy Comparison

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Gabriel Conroy and Charles Wales are characters from Joyce James’s “The Dead,” and Scott F. Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited,” respectfully. Close examinations of both characters are to be raised through comparing and contrasting each other with details and quotes from each story. Some of the evidence will take the motivations, strengths and weaknesses, conflicts and environments in scrutiny to determine their conformity to each other. Additionally, information on how Conroy and Wales are divergent from each other will also be cited from each text. To begin, Gabriel Conroy is heralded in “The Dead” as a man that everyone at an annual party in Ireland that cannot wait to mingle with him and get to know. As it turns out, Gabriel is not the type …show more content…

Campbell…and George Hardt…it was not an American bar no more,” (Fitzgerald 310-311). They might be asking themselves why is a man so determined to get their daughter back, if he just goes back to being un-sober.
At first, there are no obvious similarities between Charles Wales and Gabriel Conroy, but in fact they share a lot in common. One of which is how they both share similar feelings of being alone and isolated from their loved ones, “he woke up feeling happy…but suddenly he grew sad, remembering all the plans he and Helen had made,” (Fitzgerald 319). As stated beforehand, Gabriel Conroy believed he was separated from himself and reality. Charles Wales also feels loneliness because he thinks that it is his fault that his sister-in-law Marion is right that he killed his wife purposefully by not being by her …show more content…

As the reader finds out in “Babylon Revisited,” Charles Wales is honestly trying to get his family back together, which is unlike what Gabriel Conroy wants to do. When he was invited to the party, Gabriel was tasked with providing a speech and toast for their hosts for the evening. The reader is already aware that Gabriel is very self-conscious when it comes to what he says to others, “the patting grew louder in encouragement and then ceased altogether, Gabriel leaned his 10 trembling fingers on the tablecloth and smiled nervously at the company,” (Joyce 380). Gabriel could only push himself through, and try his best to avoid causing an embarrassment to

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