![]() He was standing with her in the cold, looking in through a grated window at a man making bottles in a roaring furnace. They were standing on the crowded platform and he was placing a ticket inside the warm palm of her glove. Birds were twittering in the ivy and the sunny web of the curtain was shimmering along the floor: he could not eat for happiness. A heliotrope envelope was lying beside his breakfast-cup and he was caressing it with his hand. Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory. She seemed to him so frail that he longed to defend her against something and then to be alone with her. She was walking on before him so lightly and so erect that he longed to run after her noiselessly, catch her by the shoulders and say something foolish and affectionate into her ear. T S Elliot called this story one of the best short stories ever written. “The Dead” explores a number of themes, including the weight of the past and human mortality. The story focuses on Gabriel Conroy and his relationship with his friends and family, and, particularly, his wife Gretta. “The Dead”, the final story in the collection, Dubliners, written by James Joyce, was published in 1914.
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