Jack Phoenix reviewed The Dead by Richard Ellmann (Case studies in contemporary criticism)
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce.
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4 stars
Rarely does a story of roughly 40 pages pack such an emotional, philosophically-layered punch, but Joyce's clever use of lulling the reader into a sense of the mundane makes the conclusion all the more powerful.