When I started reading this weeks assignment I expected the story to be about the death of someone at the Aunt's party. Now there are images of death scattered throughout the story, but I think the reason Joyce titled his short story "The Dead," was to show that Gabriel was a man that was living his life without emotion, dead to his and others emotions in his world. It wasn't until the story about the death of a boy whom portrayed great love for his wife and who Mrs. Conroy confessed "I think he died for me," that Gabriel's eyes were opened to how dead he was inside. It's at that moment he decides he wants to live life and would rather "...pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."Who do we know that loved us so much that He died for us? JESUS! Perhaps this Easter weekend is a wonderful opportunity for us to become more aware of what we've been hiding within ourselves and to start living life fuller with Jesus as our savior so that we too can "...pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
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