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Title: The Dead
Name of Author: James Joyce
Biography of author related to work:
Point of View: Third Person
Themes (relate these to direct quotations):

State what happens at each stage of development.

Exposition:
Rising Action:
Climax:
Falling Action:
Resolution:

Is there a social or personal purpose by the author? Name it (them) and relate to
quotations from the work.
The author’s purpose is personal. He wrote Dubliners, and “The Dead” to bring about memories of his childhood in Dublin.
Analyze the main characters. Name them and give quotations describing their physical,
intellectual and spiritual states: State whether the character is dynamic or static and how
we know.
Protagonist: Gabriel is static, because he remains the same throughout the story. Gabriel is a young married man , well-liked by his friends and relatives. “He was their favourite nephew.” “I’m sick of my own country, sick of it.”
Main character 2: Aunt Kate is the second main character, and she is static, because she makes no great changes from the beginning to the end of the story. “our chief hostess herself, whose good heart, whose too good heart, has become a byword with all who know her.”

Main character 3: Aunt Julia is also a static character and remains unchanged throughout the story. “ who seems to be gifted with perennial youth and whose singing must have been a surprise or revelation to us all.”

Give two examples of internal conflict from the work.
One internal conflict is Gabriel cannot decide what quote or whether or not o even put a quote in his speech. Another internal conflict is when Gabiel seems to be wondering whether or not he cares about his country or not.
Give two examples of external conflict from the work.
One example of external conflict is that the aunts really don’t like Freddy, and want Gabriel to take care of him. Another external conflict is between Molly Ivors, and Gabriel. Molly wants him to come on a trip through Ireland with her, but he wants to have a bike tour with his friends.

Give an example of irony.
It is ironic in this story that Gabriel takes his wife for granted, when Michael Furey had given his life for her.
Identify a flashback.
Gabriel’s wife, Gretta flashes back to a time when she and Michael Furey were in love.
Significant Literary Devices

Literary Device: Direct Characterization
Quotation and page #: “He was very delicate.”p178
Effect of Literary Device: This describes Michael Furey, and tells why Gabriel was almost jealous of him.

Literary Device: Indirect Characterization
Quotation and page #: “He was their favorite nephew,”p146

Effect of Literary Device: This literary device highlights the aunts affection for Gabriel

Literary Device: Rhyme Scheme
Quotation and page #: “For they are jolly gay fellows/For they are jooly gay fellows. . .”p167
Effect of Literary Device: This little song in the story tells that the guests really felt good about the hostesses

Literary Device:
Quotation and page #:
Effect of Literary Device:

Literary Device: Symbolism
Quotation and page #: “ He’s not so bad is he?”p150
Effect of Literary Device: This quote has to do with the fact that Freddy Malins was a symbol of drunkeness and bad to the aunts.

Literary Device: Irony
Quotation and page #: “So she had had that romance in her life: a man had died for her sake.”p181
Effect of Literary Device: This device shows how ironic Gabriel felt that he had ended up with his wife, yet another man died for her.

Give an example of foreshadowing:
The aunts bad talk of Freddy Malins foreshadows that he will come to the party drunk and cause a ruckus.

Describe the setting with detail. Explain how the setting relates to the plot and themes.
The story takes place in the house of three kindly old women. It is the winter, and people are coming for the Morkan’s party/dance. It is around the early 1900’s in Dublin, Ireland.

Identify at least two symbols from the story and explain the symbolism.

Identify an allusion from the story.
This short story alludes to a song called, The Lass Of Aughrim.