In 1882 in Dublin, a famous writer named James Joyce was born and in 1941 in Zurich, Switzerland, James Joyce died at the age of 59. Joyce began his career writing short stories which etched, with extraordinary clarity, aspects of Dublin life. These stories were published in part of the Dubliners in 1914. Fifteen of his stories filled the pages of the Dubliners. The stories are: The sisters, A meeting, Araby, Eveline, After the race, Two gallants, The pension, A little cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A painful case, Ivy Day in the committee room, A mother, Grace and The Dead. He then wrote the following novels: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939). The final story of the Dubliners, "The Dead", was not part of the original version of the book but was added later. During a festive event, attended by guests whose portraits Joyce draws with precision and economy, a series of overwhelming events frees the protagonist, Gabriel, from his possessiveness and selfishness. The viewpoint he reaches at the end is the mood of supreme neutrality. Many themes and concepts are present in "The Dead", such as male dominance, power class, nationalism, love, nostalgia, despair, decadence, and epiphany. In "The Dead", Gabriel Conroy's restrained behavior and his reputation among his nephew aunts who takes care of everything make him a man of authority and prudence, but two encounters with women at the party put his self-confidence severely tested. First, Gabriel awkwardly provokes a defensive statement from the overworked Lily when he asks her about her love life. Instead of apologizing or explaining what he meant, Gabriel quickly ends the conversation by giving ...... middle of paper ...... t, and those who leave the world like Michael Furey , with great passion, actually live more fully than people like him. We can see that without these other characters the protagonist would not be. By the end of “The Dead,” Gabriel Conroy became a symbol of modern man’s isolation. Bibliography Hobby, Blake. “Alienation among the Dubliners of James Joyce.” Alienation. New York: Blooms Literary Review, 2009. 61-69. Print Winston, Greg C. “Militarism and “the Dead.” » A new and complex sensation: essays on Joyce's Dubliners. Dublin: Lilliput, 2004. 122-32. Print. Bennett, Andrew and Nicholas Royle. Introduction to literature, criticism and theory. 3rd ed. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2004. The Dead Greenblatt, Stephen and MH Abrams, eds. Norton Anthology of English Literature. Flight. 2. 8th ed. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2006. pp.. 2