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James Joyce's story "The Dead" has a tremendous impact on the readers, especially those who are familiar with the political situation in Ireland at the time about which the Joyce wrote the final story in Dubliners. In exploring the meaning of James Joyce's long short-story, "The Dead", there are many critical approaches to take. Each approach gives readers a lens, a set of guidelines through which to examine and express ideas of the meaning of "…

…the people in Dublin still want to forget the problem and enjoy at least on New Years Day where it can be with their loved ones to relax. Work Cited The Dead. Dir. John Houston. Perf. Anjelica Houston, Donal McCann. Bestron Pictures, 1987 Joyce, James. The Dead. Ed. Daniel R. Scwarz. Cornell University, 1994 Rabinowitz, Peter J. "A Symbol of Something": Interpretive Vertigo in "The Dead." Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987 Scwarz, Daniel R., ed. The Dead. Cornell University, 1994