The DeadJames Joyce (1882-1941)

Dubliners

Collection of short stories

About people in Dublin

Divided in four groups:

- Childhood

- Adolescence

- Maturity

- Public life

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

Epiphany:

Moment of sudden

revelation

Istant of intensity

Painful self awareness

Gretta’s

Epiphany

• Auditory epiphany

• Remembers her first lover

• Michael Furey died for her

• She confesses to Gabriel

• Visual epiphany

• Not her true lover

• Feels small and insignificant

Gabriel’s

Epiphany:

Gabriel Monologue

Snow that covers

everything

Smallness and

insecurity

To die young or old

Features and Themes

Realistic

Higly Simbolic

Indirect interior monologue

Matteo

Longano

Classe VBLiceo Scientifico «M.Curie»IISS «Galileo Galilei» Monopoli

A.s. 2012/2013