4. Gabriel Conroy
“Gabriel coloured as if he felt he
had made a mistake and, without
looking at her, kicked off his
goloshes and flicked actively with
his muffler at his patent-leather
shoes.”- page 1229
5. Encounter With
Miss Ivors
(pgs. 1235-
1236)
-“And haven’t you your own land to
visit, continued Miss Ivors, that you
know nothing of, your own people,
and your own country?”
-”O, to tell you the truth, retorted
Gabriel suddenly, I’m sick of my own
country, sick of it!”
“…Then, just as the chain was about
to start again, she stood on tiptoe and
whispered into his ear:
-West Briton!”
6. The Wellington
Monument
“The snow would be
lying on the branches
of the trees and
forming a bright cap
on the top of the
Wellington
Monument.” –page
1237
7. Symbolic Snow
“A light fringe of
snow lay like a cape
on the shoulders of
his overcoat and like
toecaps on the toes
of his goloshes”
(page 1229)
9. Gabriel’s Speech
Hospitality –
“…gathered together under this
hospitable roof, around this
hospitable board.”
“…tradition of genuine…Irish
hospitality…which we in turn must
hand down to our descendants…”
10. New –
“…new ideas and new principles…”
“But we are living in a sceptical
and…thought-tormented age…I fear
this new generation, educated or
hypereducated…will lack those
qualities of humanity, of hospitality…”
11. Death -
“…we are living in a less spacious
age…”
“…still cherish in our hearts the
memory of those dead and gone great
ones whose fame the world will not
willingly let die.”
“…we could not find the heart to go on
bravely with our work among the
12. Thanking the hostesses –
“...the Three Graces of the Dublin
musical world.”
“…I will not attempt to play to-night
the part that Paris played on another
occasion. I will not attempt to choose
between them.”
13. The Lass of Aughrim
Presented in the following clip
14. The Lass of
Aughrim
Gabriel thinks of his wife as a
painting in this moment, the
brightening of hues and depths of
the shadows that cloak her.
Why does this song stir such
emotions in Gretta?
15. “The blood went bounding along his veins; and the thoughts went rioting
through his brain, proud,joyful,tender, valorous.”
“Moments of their secret life burst like stars upon his memory.”
“A heliotrope envelope was lying beside his breakfast-cup and he was
caressing it with his hand. Birds were twittering in the ivy and the sunny
web of the curtain was shimmering along the floor: he could not eat for
happiness.”
Joyce brings out the beauty and passion mists the cold misery of winter and snow.
Completely different images than what the readers are presented with during the
party.
“He longed to recall to her those moments, to make her forget the years of their dull
existence together and remember only their moments of ecstasy.”
“Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is
no tender enough to be your name?”
As readers we need to ask what evoked this kind of passion in Gabriel?
16. 50 Shades of
Grey
• Christian likes to be in control
• Wears many masks
• Lives in a consistent routine
• Emotionally stinted life
• Sees passion in lust
• Unresolved sense of personal
identity
17. Are they ever really
dead?
Joyce creates this concept that the dead are
just as alive as the living. It is as if Gabriel is
competing against a dead man for his wife's
affections.
