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Passing boldly into that other world of (w)holes: narrativity and subjectivity in James Joyce's "The Dead."(Special "Dubliners" Number)

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From: Studies in Short Fiction
Date: 19950622
Author:Murphy, Sean P.

A psychoanalytical interpretation of James Joyce's "The Dead" may find the character Gabriel Conroy struggling with a fragmented sense of masculinity and looking to the characters of Gretta, Miss Ivors, and Lily for a sense of wholeness. Subjects or characters within the narrative all desire unity or fulfillment as they acknowledge the losses and incompleteness in their lives. The ending of "The Dead" does not offer Gabriel Conroy or the reader a final sense of completion as Conroy shifts his focus away from the women in his life and towards a symbolic east in a continued search for a whole ...

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