The dead is an extract from Dubliners by James Joyce. at the end of a party organized by the Morkans, Gabriel and his wife Gretta are guided to the carriage that will bring them to the hotel. When they arrived home, Gabriel wanted to satisfy a need of love while his wife interrupted him to explain the reason of her sadness. During that party Gretta heard a song that reminded her of a boy that she had met in Galway. This guy was in love with Gretta and challenged his illness in order to say goodbye to her before she left. Gabriel understood that it is better to live a short life full of passion than a long but insipid life. The title The Dead is refered to the interior death of the protagonists: Gretta still lives in her memory and this restrains her to live her life; Gabriel thinks that he is living in a solid dimension of life instead he is living in a fragile dimension as his marriage.