Elements of a Short Story Expressed the Protagonist Gabriel in the Short Story the Dead

James Joyce’s short story, “The Dead” depicts characters that all are seemingly alive, yet, on the inside, are very much dead. The main character, Gabriel Conroy, is more concerned with himself and how he is perceived than anyone else. His conceited nature plays a major role in his epiphany at the end of the story. After his wife, Gretta, divulges her childhood to Gabriel and the first young man who ever loved her, Gabriel come to the realization that “he had never felt like that himself towards any woman but he knew that feeling must be love (p. 628). With Gabriel’s sudden epiphany, the issue the readers knew, but he did not, surfaced. Gabriel was dead inside and only cared about himself. Any form of love he ever gave was to himself to boost his own egotistical personality.

Although, they are siblings, Troy acts a lot like Gabriel’s father and continues to treat him like a child instead of an adult who is capable of living alone. I think Gabriel’s childish and carefree nature is supposed to contrast Troy’s cynical nature and perspective on life. Gabriel is rarely upset in the movie and this is because he is not mentally stable, so perhaps the writers wanted to show that in reality, you have to go insane in order to fully cope and be optimistic about the reality you are living in. In a way, Gabriel represents the idea of “ignorance is bliss” because he cannot fully understand the world around him; he is able to be happy. If I were able to study the movie in depth, I would most likely pursue the usage of colors and lighting throughout the movie. I know that the movie Psycho utilized the set and the imagery of the set to also tell the story so I study the movie again to see if Denzel Washington had done the same

“Gabriel had not gone to the door with the others. He was in a dark part of the hall gazing up the staircase. A woman was standing near the top of the first flight, in the shadow also. He could not see her face but he could see the terra-cotta and salmon-pink panels of her skirt which the shadow made appear black and white. It was his wife. She was leaning on the banisters, listening to something. Gabriel was surprised at her stillness and strained his ear to listen also. But he could hear little save the noise of laughter and dispute on the front steps, a few chords struck on the piano and a few notes of a man's voice singing.” (Joyce, 144)

We have been assigned many great stories to read while in this class. In this paper we will cover and analyze three different short stories and quickly compare and contrast things they have in common. This paper will analyze “A Rose for Emily”, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”. We will analyze the different symbolism throughout all the stories such as “the elusive definition of a good man” which comes from “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, also themes in the different stories like traditions people follow, and the power that death has.

“Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”, “Ambush”, and “Sniper” are three short stories that all seem to be different but also have similarities. Each story describes a short period of time in the main characters live that make a significant impact on them. Taking a close look at the literary elements of setting, theme, conflict, and characters show the similarities and differences between the three stories.

A strong essay goes beyond the explicit and makes logical inferences about the psychological and literary elements of the stories

Have you ever thought that three completely different stories might have something in common? It might seem unlikely, but now you can change what you previously thought! The short stories Contents of a Dead Man’s Pockets by Jack Finney, The Leap by Louise Erdrich, and The Trip by Laila Lalami, all have their similarities and differences on several aspects. This can be demonstrated through the topics of setting, conflict, characters, and theme. These topics help make up the plot of each story. No story is the same, but they can have similar messages or themes meant for the audience. Some can argue that these three short stories are completely different, but other individuals differ. These main elements from each story can be both, depending on one’s point of view.

One of the main themes discussed in the book is silence. Silence was mainly discussed in the section of “Gabriel’s Prayer”. Gabriel is a preacher in the novel. He was once a very ambitious and wild who felt like he was on top of the world and nothing could stop him. In this part of the book, his sister, Florence is crying at the altar. This gave him a flashback to when he was crying on a tree he often sees on a daily basis. He was waiting for a sign from God to cleanse him of all his sin but hears

Authors use literary elements dramatically in short stories to influence a certain feeling on the reader or to send out a certain message to the audience. Throughout the stories, “The Interlopers” and “Lamb to the Slaughter”, both authors use elements to make their story appealing to the reader. Saki, the author of “The Interlopers” uses his examples of literary elements precisely and tremendously, which makes his story better than Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”.

The world is a massive place full of endless literature, beginning from ancient scrolls to daily news articles, filled with many secrets, perspectives and surroundings that help connect literature to an individual’s daily life. Some writers use the skills of literary elements to express and discuss an event that has happened to them or what has happened to others. This helps others to comprehend the perspectives of the author’s understanding toward an incident that one might experience. For instance in Flannery O’Connor’s short story, she uses many literary elements to express her views over most of her stories. O’Connor expresses her views in her short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by using the literary elements of point of view, irony, and setting.

The author writes the story in a very interesting way. The way that there are only a few descriptions scattered about and that it focuses on dialogue is what allows us to figure out what the characters are speaking about and to find the intentions behind their words. The subject of this short narrative stands out boldly. Though it was written in

Unfortunately, the connection that Gabriel feels to his wife is the product of illusion. In reality, he doesn’t know her at all—a fact Joyce alludes to when Gabriel fails to recognize his own wife and sees only, “[a] woman standing near the top of the stairs…” (2192). When Gretta begins to reminisce about a boy from her past, Gabriel’s blanket of illusion is snatched away: “While he had been full of…joy and desire, she had been comparing him in her mind with another” (2197). Facing the reality of his wife’s love for another man, Gabriel now begins to question their entire relationship.

The Dead by James Joyce was an amazing story about a man named Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta attending a holiday party thrown by his aunts, Kate and Julia Morkin, where he is supposed to deliver a speech in which he is very nervous about. Throughout the whole story, Gabriel shows us his personality through his actions given to other people. Gabriel lacks emotional intelligence and is insensitive about everything around him and the world. His personality is what

James Joyce presents Gabriel to us, as already mentioned, from different perspectives, of which the character traits in the previous paragraph could be one. A second set of traits that I want to discuss appears even more frequent in the story. If we start our reflections again at the very beginning of the short story, the scene with Lily, we uncover another striking element of Gabriel's behaviour; He's not just kind and decent

In the story "The Dead" James Joyce gives his protagonist, Gabriel, a characterization through imagery and symbolism. He brings Gabriel into the perspective where the reader can understand him better through techniques and devices.