name three events that frees the protagonist, Gabriel, in Joyce James, "The Dead" from his possessiveness and egotism.
Date Submitted: 11/21/2004 00:17:30
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (676 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (676 words)
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Composition 3
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Composition 3
An event that frees the protagonist in the Dead, Gabriel, from his possessiveness and egotism is when he says something to Lily that makes her sad. Gabriel is just expecting that Lily is alright and that she is getting married soon, when this turns out not to be true, he feels as if he makes a mistake. '"Gabriel coloured as if he had made a mistake and, without …
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…While he had been full of memories of their secret life together, full of tenderness and joy and desire, she had been comparing him in her mind with another. A shameful consciousness of his own person assailed him. He saw himself as a ridiculous figure...."'(2266)
Work cited list:
Joyce James, "The Dead" The Norton Anthology Of English Literature
Abrams and Greenblatt. Seventh edition volume 2. New York and London
W.W. Norton & Company, inc., 2000
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