The Dead Flashcards
The Dead - Lily f.i.d
“Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet”
The Dead - tradition of the party
“It had always been a great affair”
The Dead - assumption of marriage
“I suppose we’ll be going to your wedding one f these fine days with your young man eh?”
The Dead - rejection of the exploitation of men
“said with great bitterness - The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you”
The Dead - embarassment of Gabriel
“Gabriel coloured” chiasmus “restless” “flicked” “He took a coin rapidly out of his pocket”
The Dead - G asserting superiority
“their grade of culture was different to his”
The Dead - G self conscious
“he would fail with them just as he had failed with the girl”
The Dead - confrontational woman
“I have found out that you write for The Daily Express. Now aren’t you ashamed of yourself?” “West Briton”
The Dead - G rejection of his Irish identity
“Irish is not my language” “I’m sick of my own coutry, sick of it!”
The Dead - G responding to humiliation with hate and degradation
“She had tried to make him ridiculous before people, heckling him and staring at him with her rabbit eyes”
The Dead - longing for escape
“Gabriel’s warm trembling fingers tapped the cold pane of the window. How cool it must be outside!”
The Dead - preoccupation with the past
“a thought-tormented age” “will lack those qualities of humanity, of hspitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day”
The Dead - heat and hospitality
“The lamps were still burning redly”
The Dead - fantasies of heroism linked to sexuality
“The blood went bounding along veins; and the thoughts went rioting through his brain, proud, joyful, tender, valorous”
The Dead - romanticisation of their past
“their secret life burst like stars upon his memory” “to make her forget the years of their dull existence together”
