Stephen and Lily as artists receive vastly different treatment from society, Stephen is confident whereas Lily is clearly not. Lily looks up to Mrs. ... Ramsey does not take Lily seriously and Lily knows that. ... This is the exact opposite of Lily's situation. ... Lily thinks her art "would be hung in the servants' bedrooms." ...
During the early nineteen hundreds, the encounter that Gabriel had with Lily was very inappropriate. Gabriel tried to talk to Lily about marriage and such, which was not appropriate for the occasion or possibly ever. After the conversation, which was brief, Gabriel was angry because of the way she had acted when he tried to cover up his unsuitable actions towards Lily with money. ...
During a dinner party at his Aunt Julia and Aunt Kate's home in Dublin, he is in a cheerful mood to begin with, but as soon as he speaks with Lily, his mood is shaken. He didn't mean to make Lily rebuff, he was merely joking with her, but as Dublin is seen as dark and oppressive in the other stories, it is still oppressive in The Dead as shown by Lily who complains about the men in the city, which in turn ruins Gabriel's mood. ...
He is self-conscious about Lily's bitter remarks on marriage and about what he should say in his after-dinner speech. ... Akers explains here that the awkward confrontations with other people of the party such as Lily and Miss Ivors are instilling a form of self-consciousness in Conroy especially when it came to Lily's regards towards marriage. ... Because of the regards Lily makes towards marriage and the love that Michael Furey has towards Gretta, Gabriel becomes self-conscious which leaves him paralyzed and oppressed by his inadequate feelings towards love and marriage. ...
Lily, the caretaker's daughter, first confronts Gabriel after unintentionally making a comment pertaining to her love life. ... Gabriel's paralysis from Lily's response, coupled with his generous tip and rapid departure, speaks to his character. By leaving Lily a large tip in the midst of confrontation, we learn that Gabriel would rather buy off an individual, using wealth to solve his problems, than undergo a human interaction that would require some level of psychological intimacy with another individual. ... Gabriel's lack of expressing identity, shown by his inability t...
Later he tries to become warm to Lily and has a conversation with her, but when their discussion results in a misunderstanding the story begins to be told in an omnisciently in Gabriel's point of view. ... After he mistakenly offended Lily, he worries whether or not he will offend other people with the speech he had written. ...
In the collection of short stories titled Dubliners, Joyce tries to show through his short stories a wide range of characters that exhibit different views and ideas on life. Gabriel Conroy in The Dead as well as James Duffy in A Painful Case have the same egoistic views on love and marriage as well ...
The Dead Summary One night around Christmas time, Gabriel Convey, a youngish writer with gilt-framed round glasses, goes with his wife Gretta to the Christmas dance held at the home of the Misses Morkan: his aunts, Kate and Julia, and their niece, Mary Jane. A cheerful chaos reigns at the old w...
