Overview
"The Dead" is about a young man named Gabriel who attends a Christmas dinner party with his wife and friends. He must give a dinner speech which he feels he is over qualified for. In the end of the story his wife reveals to him that she is still in love with her childhood sweetheart who in a way died for her. Gabriel knows he has never lived up to this love and quite frankly never live up to it.
Gabriel has an epiphany about his wife being in love with another man that he could never live up to.
Dead= the young boy, death= Gabriel and Gretta's marriage, cold and death jokes, dying= the aunts (old and tired)
Gabe fails to have successful encounters with women
Miss Ivors and his wife
Setting: Christmas time with loved ones
Significance of snow- New beginnings, the snow covers the past of Michael, the dead lover, but his memory is not forgotten
I like how you lay everything out when discussing a story, and highlight the main points. I think the snow was pretty significant in the story, representing cold and death and like you said the death of Gretta's lover and all of the dead laying in their coffins under the land of Ireland.
ReplyDeletei like how you lay out some of the important events that happen in the story. i also think that the show was significant but i do not really get it at first when i read the story.
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