15th January

Starting from the title The Dead creates a melancholic mood and sense of death.

The text can be divided in 4 sequences.

Which is the first sequence?

First sequence → starts with the setting: Morkan’s house for the annual dance

Arrival of guests at annual dance at Morkan’s house 

The most awaiting guest is Gabriel → messenger/ announcer

To hold a speech

Why is he holding the speech?He is the intellectual guest

What the first sequence convey about Gabriel?

How is communicated his vanity→ wader (continental fashion/ trendy)

Lily→ housemaid/ caretaker

How is his impact with Lily? Embarrassed

He start with a mistake => he is not the perfect man  

Gabriel arrives late → make curiosity

He is self assured 

How does he do to improve the wrong action?

He gives her money

What did he speak about?

Speech → very rhetorical structure

After thanking his aunts for invitation

Topic of the speech: Irish hospitality

In which context he talks about hospitality?

Miss Ivors → nationalist

Gabriel nel discorso illustra la sua mentalità cosmopolita

What is the image of Irish culture that his speech convey?

The short story can be divided in 3 main sequences:

1. Right from the start up to [...] “of laughter would allow him”

2. From “Gabriel could not listen” up to “Freddy Malins acting as officer with his fork on high”

1. Julia’s song

2. Dinner

3. Gabriel speech

• Irish hospitality

• Comparison between pasta and present

• set memories

• The 3 Graces

• Paris

3. From “The pierced morning…” up to the end

Music → constant in the short story. It becomes the protagonist of the story

What is the message of the short story? It is better to live a life like Michael Furey than a paralyzed like Gabriel’s one.

Gabriel → self revelation

To Love:

• Perception verb

• Action verb

            Epifania

Azione ------------> Percezione 

Il racconto diventa una psicoanalisi

To be affected = che non corrisponde alla realtà

It is a great story because it is about humanity

Gabriel compares himself with Michael

Furey → metaphor fury= furia, passione