In the story of, “The dead”, the author, James Joyce, tells us what the main character of the story,Gabriel, is feeling and thinking. Gabriel is narrating a dark moment he is going through in his life. Joyce utilizes techniques and devices as imagery, point of view, motif, and diction to sympathize his ideas.
First of all, in the first stanza/paragraph Gabriel describes his wife while she is sleeping. The author uses vocabulary such as: in resentfully, never lived, and death to describe the idea that Gabriel and his wife never lived as man and wife, but he does not hold any grudge. Also, the fact that his wife's face is no longer beautiful because of time does not mean he will be rude with her. Gabriel tried to tell the public that another
First of all, in the first stanza/paragraph Gabriel describes his wife while she is sleeping. The author uses vocabulary such as: in resentfully, never lived, and death to describe the idea that Gabriel and his wife never lived as man and wife, but he does not hold any grudge. Also, the fact that his wife's face is no longer beautiful because of time does not mean he will be rude with her. Gabriel tried to tell the public that another