The Dead

James Joyce · 1914 CE · Short Story · English · Modernist

At the Misses Morkan's Christmas party in Dublin, Gabriel Conroy carves the goose, makes the speech, and frets over how the women around him are reading him. Going home through the snow, a song someone sang turns his wife's mind back to her girlhood in Galway. Snow falls on the living and the dead.

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• ↓ Ulysses
  James Joyce · 1922 CE · Novel — continues this
• ↓ The Dead
  John Huston · 1987 CE · Film — adapts this

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• The Dead
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