![]() And it is not I who say it: it was the story the one that cleared this point for me Joyce mocks the reader putting his main character in the reader’s same position and misguiding him the same way that Gabriel is misguided by his instincts. But it would be too easy and, partially knowing Joyce, one should know that he usually puts easy solutions to misguide the reader from the real meaning of what he is trying to say. The easiest way to go would be to state that “the dead” is none other than the “main dead” of the story: Michael Furey, Gretta’s young and innocent dead lover. There is a lot of ambiguity in this noun because its singular and plural form are exactly the same, so Joyce could be alluding to one, two, three or a thousand dead and there would be no grammatical way of knowing how many are alluded in the title. ![]() The great question mark that Joyce’s “The Dead” creates is precisely who is this or who are these “dead” mentioned in the title. ![]() “There was grace and mystery in her attitude as if she were a symbol of something.” ![]()
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