“O, at Christmas, when he opened that little Christmas-card shop in Henry Street.” Her face looked so serious and weary that the words would not pass Gabriel’s lips. She turned away from the mirror slowly and walked along the shaft of light towards him. Gabriel paused for a few moments, watching her, and then said: She had taken off her hat and cloak and was standing before a large swinging mirror, unhooking her waist. Then he turned and leaned against a chest of drawers with his back to the light. He looked down into the street in order that his emotion might calm a little. Gabriel threw his overcoat and hat on a couch and crossed the room towards the window. Many of the characters in Dubliners later recur in Joyce's Ulysses.Ī ghostly light from the street lamp lay in a long shaft from one window to the door. Dubliners has an infamously difficult publishing history between Joyce first sending the manuscript to a publisher in 1905 and its ultimate publication in 1914, the collection had been submitted 18 times to 15 different publishers. The following is from James Joyce's story "The Dead", the final entry in his 1914 collection, Dubliners.
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