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Resumen con puntos importantes, aspectos y personajes de la obra The Dead, de James Joyce.
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The Dead: a short story written by James Joyce in 1914 and included in his book ''Dubliners''. The story centres on Gabriel Conroy on the night of Morkan Sisters' annual party. ''The Dead'' develops towards a moment of self-awareness which Joyce described as an epiphany. The narrative generally concentrates on Gabriel's insecurities, his social awkwardness, and the defensive way he copes with his discomfort. The story culminates at the point when Gabriel discovers that, through years of marriage, there was much he never knew of his wife's past. James Joyce: Irish novelist, known for his experimental use of language in works such as ''Ulysses'' and ''Finnegans Wake''. Joyce's technical innovations included the use of the interior monologue and a complex network of symbols drawn from mythology, history and literature. Gabriel Conroy: main character of ''The Dead''. He is the unusual character in Dubliners who dwells on his own revelation without suppressing or rejecting it, and who can place himself in a greater perspective. In the final scene of the story, when he intensely contemplates the meaning of his life, Gabriel has a vision not only of his own tedious life but of his role as a human. Gretta Conroy - Gabriel’s wife in “The Dead.” Gretta plays a relatively minor role for most of the story, until the conclusion where she is the focus of Gabriel’s thoughts and actions. She later plunges into despair when she tells Gabriel the story of her childhood love, Michael Furey. Her pure intentions and loyalty to this boy unnerve Gabriel and generate his despairing thoughts about life and death. Lily -

The housemaid to the Morkan sisters who rebukes Gabriel in “The Dead.”

Molly Ivors -

The nationalist woman who teases Gabriel during a dance in “The Dead.”

Julia Morkan - One of the aging sisters who throw an annual dance party in “The Dead.” Julia has a grey and sullen appearance that combines with her remote, wandering behavior to make her a figure sapped of life. Kate Morkan - One of the aging sisters who throw an annual dance party in “The Dead.” Kate is vivacious but constantly worries about her sister, Julia, and the happiness of the guests. Michael Furey -

Gretta Conroy’s childhood love in “The Dead” who died for her long ago.

The Dubliners: a short-story collection published in 1914. In most of the stories, Joyce uses a detached but highly perceptive narrative voice that displays these lives to the reader in precise detail. Rather than present intricate dramas with complex plots, these stories sketch daily situations in which not much seems to happen, the stories in Dubliners peer into the homes, hearts, and minds of people whose lives connect and intermingle through the shared space and spirit of Dublin. Ulysses: James Joyce's first experimental novel. Ulysses strives to achieve a kind of realism unlike that of any novel before it by rendering the thoughts and actions of its main characters in a scattered and fragmented form similar to the way thoughts, perceptions, and memories actually appear in our minds. At the same time that Ulysses presents itself as a realistic novel, it also works on a mythic level, by way of a series of parallels with Homer’s Odyssey.

Finnegans Wake: is a work of comic prose written by James Joyce and published in 1939. It is significant for its experimental style and its reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. It has a writing style based on the stream of conciousness, lots of literary allusions, free dream associations, and an abandonment of the conventions of plot and character construction. Stream of conciousness: is a narrative device used in literature "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind. Another phrase for it is 'interior monologue'. Avatar: an avatar is the concept of who would you have become if you wouldn't had done the things that you have done. We see this concept in Ulysses through Stephen Dedalus, who is Joyce's literary alter ego or his avatar....