1. Gabriel Conroy in The Dead by James Joyce
Gabriel's character represents living a life of paralysis, one that is both without life and love. ... Is that considered living at all? ... He inserts his own philosophy on life by saying, "Our path through life is strewn with many such sad memories: and were we to brood upon them always we could not find the heart to go on bravely with our work among the living. ... In the final lines of "The Dead," Joyce illuminates Gabriel's inward change that causes him to examine both his own life, and human life in general, by complicating his understanding of the living and the dead. Gabri...
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