... well respected and controls some of the flaws that are brought out in the family. When Gabriel first shows up at the party, there is an intense nervousness between Lily and Gabriel. It is as if he had forgotten how to converse with people of a lower status, without becoming nervous and stumbling over his words. In his ... . Later on in the story, Freddy's dependency on others is the beginning for the epiphany in which Gabriel will later see. Gabriel's interaction with Lily shows the lack of control he has over a situation in which he should put his foot in his mouth. When Gabriel is talki...

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... the dead. Gabriel experiences several major confrontations throughout the story, all of which occur at the Misses Morkan's annual dance and used to open Gabriel's consciousness up to the reader. Lily, the caretaker's daughter, first confronts Gabriel after unintentionally making a comment pertaining to her love life. This confrontation is awkward, leaving Gabriel in a state of embarrassment. Not knowing how to handle ... it, "he took a coin rapidly from his pocket, thrusting it into her hands, he walked rapidly towards the door." Gabriel's paralysis from Lily's response, coupled with hi...

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... holds his anger inside and expresses the outer facade that society expects him to wear. During the early nineteen hundreds, the encounter that Gabriel had with Lily was very inappropriate. Gabriel tried to talk to Lily about marriage and such, which was not appropriate for the occasion or possibly ever. After the conversation, which was brief, Gabriel was angry because of the ... way she had acted when he tried to cover up his unsuitable actions towards Lily with money. He thought she was unappreciative and he was angry because she had acted bitter toward what he thought was an act of k...

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... at his Aunt Julia and Aunt Kate's home in Dublin, he is in a cheerful mood to begin with, but as soon as he speaks with Lily, his mood is shaken. He didn't mean to make Lily rebuff, he was merely joking with her, but as Dublin is seen as dark and oppressive in the other stories, it is still oppressive in The ... Dead as shown by Lily who complains about the men in the city, which in turn ruins Gabriel's mood. His mood is also wavered by his fellow teacher which a narrow view of nationalism whom accuses ... ...

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... shoulders of his overcoat and like toecaps on the toes of his galoshes", but he was trying to "scrape the snow [off]"(185). Later he tries to become warm to Lily and has a conversation with her, but when their discussion results in a misunderstanding the story begins to be told in an omnisciently in Gabriel's point of view. It is like he ... is separated from the rest of the people. After he mistakenly offended Lily, he worries whether or not he will offend other people with the speech he had written. "They would think that he was airing his superior education. He would fail with ... ...

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... name of Gabriel is like the boy in "Araby". While at a Christmas dinner party that his aunts had thrown. He was to make a great speech. He speaks to a girl named Lily and asks her when she was getting married. Her answer was "The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you". She is ... ...

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... social class and his family members, but Gabriel's social arrogance makes him believe that his education makes him superior to everyone. This can be seen when he first talks to Lily and upon her answer to his question Gabriel feels that " he had failed with the girl in the pantry."(Dubliners, page 179) He receives her answer as a personal failure on ... ...

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... the Christmas dance held at the home of the Misses Morkan: his aunts, Kate and Julia, and their niece, Mary Jane. A cheerful chaos reigns at the old women's house, with Lily, the caretaker's daughter, scampering about, and Gabriel's aunts worrying whether Freddy Malins will turn up drunk. A piano plays in a parlor full of dancing couples. Gabriel tells his aunts that on ... ...

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