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This paper explains the remarkable internal angst of Gabriel and the role of the obvious theme of death and "the dead" throughout the story. It shows how there remains a strong theme of women and their role as "catalyst touchstones", grounding Gabriel, as well as the reader, in the realization of the inevitability of suffering and death.

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"Indeed, one wonders whether the consideration of feminist themes is mutually exclusive to the interpretation of The Dead as a masterful observation on the dual realities of human life an existence precariously perched on the divide between acute awareness of mortality and the numbing fear of the unknown that knowledge evokes, the realm of the "inner mind" and the resulting projection of a "false reality". Is it not possible to consider those feminist themes to be, in fact, a further striking example of the "dual nature of reality" Of the vast chasm between joyful appearances (in the party), and the often, sad reality of female life in specific, and human life in general?"

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