1. The Dead
James Joyce (1882-1941)

2. Dubliners
 Collection of short stories
 About people in Dublin
 Divided in four groups:
- Childhood
- Adolescence
- Maturity
- Public life

3. The plot
• Gabriel Conroy
• His wife Gretta
• Christmas party in Dublin
• Auditory epiphany:
Gretta listens to a song
• Back to the hotel
• Visual epiphany:
Gabriel looks at the snow
• Final interior monologue

4. Epiphany:
 Moment of sudden
revelation
 Istant of intensity
 Painful self awareness

5. Gretta’s
Epiphany
• Auditory epiphany
• Remembers her first lover
• Michael Furey died for her
• She confesses to Gabriel

6. • Visual epiphany
• Not her true lover
• Feels small and insignificant
Gabriel’s
Epiphany:

7. Gabriel Monologue
 Snow that covers
everything
 Smallness and
insecurity
 To die young or old

8. Features and Themes
 Realistic
 Higly Simbolic
 Indirect interior monologue

9. Matteo
Longano
Classe VB
Liceo Scientifico «M.Curie»
IISS «Galileo Galilei» Monopoli
A.s. 2012/2013