... inadequacy and vulnerability. The strand of humiliation felt by Joyce's main protagonist Gabriel Conroy runs from beginning to end, starting with his encounter with Lily, the caretaker's daughter, on his arrival at the Misses Morkans" house for the dinner they hold on the Feast of the Epiphany (in ... describe his own secular meaning for the word, together with two other words in Christian terminology: "eucharistic" and "epicleses". His embarrassment regarding Lily is due to her terse response to his friendly remark about his seeing her soon to be married. It is soon after hinted at ... ...

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... develop a sense of sadness. Tim Akers expresses this sadness as self-consciousness by claiming, "In ˜The Dead,' Gabriel is paralyzed by his self-consciousness. He is self-conscious about Lily's bitter remarks on marriage and about what he should say in his after-dinner speech. When Miss Ivors accuses him of being loyal to the British, he tries to avoid ... confrontation " (90). Akers explains here that the awkward confrontations with other people of the party such as Lily and Miss Ivors are instilling a form of self-consciousness in Conroy especially when it came to Lily's regards towa...

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