"The Dead" by James Joyce follows Gabriel Conroy through a warmly lit Christmas party at his aunts' Dublin home — a night of dancing, toasts, old songs, and gentle social friction — before a single piece of music overheard on a staircase unravels everything. When Gabriel and his wife Gretta retire to their hotel room, he discovers that she has been quietly grieving a boy named Michael Furey, who died for love of her long ago. Faced with a passion he never inspired, Gabriel is left staring into the dark as snow falls softly across all of Ireland.

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