James Joyce, The Dead

Introduction

James Joyce composed ''The Dead'' in 1907, three years after composing the fourteen other tales that were finally released with it in his assemblage deserving Dubliners (1914). ''The Dead'' is the last article in the assemblage, and it joins the topics discovered in the previous stories. In his publication, Joyce liked to give the annals of Ireland. The famous attribute he glimpsed in Ireland, and especially in Dublin, was the religious paralysis of its people. The contrive of ''The Dead'' presents the ideas and activities of one man, Gabriel Conroy, on a evening he and his wife join ...