The Dead by James Joyce - Dubliners Short Story Summary, Analysis, Review

[@TheCodeXCantina]

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[@TheCodeXCantina]

Thank for watching!

[@ShibymolBabu]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mV60pq2lrrB3ptU this is a detailed analysis of the story.please watch it

[@kutaygallo]

Gretta leaning on the banisters, in the shadow... An image that will stick in my mind forever. It gave me the feeling that something is going wrong but yet in harmony. Thanks for the intentive analysis, great story. The whole Dubliners list on your channel is a gem.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Thanks so much

[@samcee3126]

Great work!! Thank you so much. I have just finished re-reading Dubliners and you helped me get so much more out of it.

[@spenterprise591]

Nice analysis, nice quote from memory of the almost last line. You guys are spot on and very sensitive to the piece. I'm surprised you got through the entire analysis of this story about a Christmas dinner without using the word epiphany.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Ha! We'll work towards working that in next time :D

[@chowes41]

Thank you for this very interesting discussion. Certainly, Joyce's modernist vision comes out clearly here both in theme, such as memory and mortality, and this vision is also present in his wonderful imagery and symbolism, such as the snow you analysed. The beauty of Joyce lies in his multilayered meanings, "something for everybody" indeed.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

It's amazing how much he's able to pack in a single sentence!

[@colbykennedy-lord9056]

Amazing and flawless analysis and summary of this story..this is definitely James Joyce’s best work.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

It’s an amazing story! We always have things to improvement so we appreciate the positive vote

[@trevorjones8969]

And snow is the most fleeting thing, yes? Each flake unique and also a literal matter of life and death in a moment.

[@pollynlyubenova8365]

Reading this was painfully boring lol. No one can change my mind on that. That being said, thank you for the excellent analysis. Really helped me for my exam and made this much easier.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

😂 Thanks for the kind words

[@Tolstoy111]

Ever read other Joyce? Portrait? Ulysses? His stuff is not plot driven

[@catsupempire3920]

@@Tolstoy111 portrait is funky! That description of hell was a highlight for me

[@Ferrari1504]

This is great! I can't speak for your whole fanbase but i love as thorough a breakdown as you guys can do - even if it takes multiple videos. Either way i'm happy though, as long as you feel you didn't leave important stuff out of your breakdowns. Thanks for doing this.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Thanks so much! You hit the nail on the head. We usually have several topics and we have a pre-game session to choose which ones to really focus on. I hope to revisit some other overarching angles and autobiographical elements in a full Dubliners review. I appreciate you spending some time with us as we go through the stories.

[@Ferrari1504]

The CodeX Cantina hell yeah. I plan on getting some ray bradbury kurt vonnegut and flannery oconnor collections too after my reread of a portrait of the artist as a young man. I'm trying to catch up with alot of the stuff you two've been breaking down pretty soon too.

[@liyomlio626]

I really enjoy the analysis ... thank you from Algeria 🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Nice to meet you

[@arundelmercure553]

I enjoyed this intelligent discussion, astute analysis.

[@chellashivnarayan]

This is very well produced and feels very clean even though you guys are talking very casually. Thank you for your thoughts

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@spicyplumfairy]

The books (both Chinese and English) have been resting on my bookshelf for a long time until I lately finished reading Sally Rooney’s novel “Beautiful World, Where Are You?” . There was a scene mentioning one of the main characters named Simon singing the song “The Lass of Aughrim” to the crowds at a party, which made me feel curious to dig out more so that’s why I’m here:))) Thanks for this episode and I have learned a lot that I didn’t notice at first.

[@hessa7127]

Thank you guys. Really helpful

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Great to hear!

[@cjl221]

this is actually a very well made video nice job

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Why thank you.

[@mariafernandacallejas3697]

Thank you so much guys!

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Any time

[@BookishTexan]

Great analysis gentlemen.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Thanks, Brian!

[@ShibymolBabu]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mV60pq2lrrB3ptU this is a detailed analysis of the story.please watch it

[@sauravsidhant]

Great Analysis Video as ever. Loved how Joyce took a Christmas party and celebration to nationalism, then to an emotional ride, and ended with philosophy.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Great story!

[@richardwyse7817]

28:08....they are finely tuned to understand each other ,this is a very intimate culture.

[@jotrevino4827]

I appreciate y’all making this video on “The Dead” I’m about to crush my DC English Exam

[@billie1129]

I thought the mulberry tree was from the Story of Pyramus and Thisbe (which Shakespeare wrote about in Midsummer Dream).

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Uh oh, did I get my wires crossed? I’ll double check it and make sure to be more accurate if so in the future. It’s quite probable as I’ve more recently read Ovid.

[@michaelknight4041]

I love this! Just two dudes bro'in it up over some great literature!

[@brendafoustel5615]

How can you top those last two paragraphs?!?! I've followed all the series and enjoyed it so much! Thank you 😊❤

[@TheCodeXCantina]

🙏

[@parvintelli5178]

Thank you very much👌

[@TheCodeXCantina]

You are welcome. Are you working through Dubliners?

[@tapasroychoudhury2241]

Awesome!!

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Thanks

[@richardwyse7817]

and what about the "reverie"?

[@Idazle]

In my edition (Penguin Deluxe Centennial Edition) "The Dead" is 44 pages long. My impression after reading "The Dead" is that the last 11 pages, since "She was standing right under the dusty fanlight .." up to the final sentence ("upon all the living and the dead"), would have made an excellent short story, while the first 33 pages (the Misses Morkan's annual dance) could have made the first chapter of a novel Joyce never wrote.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

I can see that

[@QuestLegacy]

Krypto's "mature life" shrug is my current state. Really enjoyed this one and your interpretation of the symbolism within.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

talking about 'mature life' was like... i heard it will be like this one day...

[@TheNerdyNarrative]

J j a a a Interesting. I didn’t realize Italians loved Christmas so much. My previous profession was a loan officer at a credit union - I can tell you that people are still very guilty of trying to keep up the facade of wealth when they are living way beyond their means or have fallen on hard times and trying to keep up with their previous lifestyles. I like Krypto’s attention to the isolation theme - that the guy was so fixated on the fact that his wife Greta loved a boy over 30 years ago and was ‘paralyzed’ from moving past that - man, folks lose out on a lot of life and steal their own happiness from doing that. Also, every time you mention the Irish people, I keep thinking about Peaky Blinders...lol

[@TheNerdyNarrative]

More bloopers please

[@TheCodeXCantina]

@@TheNerdyNarrative I make as many bloopers as I can :D I have so much more to say about that fixation Gabriel had with his wife... that was the part that we had to kind of self-edit the most for making the conversation shorter. I just hope I don't forget it before we record again on Dubliners as a whole :D

[@TheNerdyNarrative]

@@TheCodeXCantina Awesome, I look forward to hearing about it in your future Dubliners content.

[@ShibymolBabu]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mV60pq2lrrB3ptU this is a detailed analysis of the story.please watch it

[@finallythere100]

Were they really acting on the vein of putting on a facade w the out of season foods, etc., or. were they just splurging on a special occasion w special people, on something that they know others there would relish / appreciate w fond memories???

[@TheCodeXCantina]

up to us to interpret

[@finallythere100]

@@TheCodeXCantina - and I suspect.now maybe a bit of both. Interesting and more complex take that I had not before considered, makes.sense.

[@EveryoneWhoReadsitMustConverse]

My favorite story from Dubliners (I'm sure many others as well) yall are crushing the break-down here. Sad, unflinching, real...Joyce at his best. This is really impressive yall. Thank you

[@TheCodeXCantina]

There's so much to be said about this. We kind of left off some of the auto-biographical elements and would love to return to it with an overall Dubliners chat. I was very nervous going down a different route from how most people do but I'm glad someone appreciated it!

[@studyadmirers]

Nice video

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Thanks

[@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace]

It's always interesting to hear how authors arrange their short story collections. I agree- looking forward, we need to be careful not to throw ALL the traditions. Some are quite valuable. Jordan Peterson talks a lot about that. Hospitality isn't very traditional in CA, unfortunately 😔

[@TheCodeXCantina]

It’s an area that I don’t normally look at. 10 points to krypto

[@aminasultan1749]

Great Great Great

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Thanks!

[@richardwyse7817]

snow is not that rare in Ireland...it happens Jan/feb...and yes paralysis ensues.

[@richardwyse7817]

one must also remember Dublin as as an urban area had more in common with the Uk mainland than parts of Rural, Republican Ireland even in terms of language ,being part of the "pale" for some centuries........."Beannacht Libh !" would have indeed been a foreign language......

[@Starscreamlive]

I might be in the minority, but I'm just not a fan of this story. I definitely need to go back and re-read it and give it a fair shake. I read all of Dubliners toward the end of last year and loved most every story in it... until I came to The Dead. Bored me to tears storywise, and Irish nationalism/identity isn't really my thing. After listening to your analysis (another job well done btw) and I re-read it, maybe I'll come to appreciate it a bit more. We'll see...

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Well, if it doesn't speak to you it doesn't. Maybe try hitting it up again at Christmas time when the mode matches?

[@spenterprise591]

Watch the movie, you will appreciate the setting better. I'm referring to John Huston

[@richardwyse7817]

@@spenterprise591 yes indeed.

[@lostinabookcase3796]

Una, why you leaving Krypto hanging and not singing with him??? XD

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Gotta save some material for the upcoming CD release

[@tullinadaly]

upper class?.. or rather was it a critique on the aspirant middle classes? They are not described as upper class because they are not. Figures such as Curran and Tom Kettle formed the emergence of a first generation catholic middle class of Ireland at that time.

[@richardwyse7817]

well, Con-or -oy would have been a Dublin working class pronunciation of the name.

[@ianjones4610]

Love your videos. Great content. Una needs to let Krypto talk more, and stop interrupting him.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Thanks, two years ago I’m sure we made a lot of mistakes for how we had conversations and how we edited the content. Hopefully, we’ve improved since then

[@kevinkell5937]

you are a smarter Aaron rodgers

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Highest honor that can be bestowed upon many

[@MikeFromDublin]

Kate and Julia do not live in an "upper-class" area. They are renting the upper stories of an old house that has a business on the ground floor. Usher's Quay overlooks the river, a stones throw from the industrial area of the city - mainly distilleries and Guinness' brewery. At best they are middle-class, part of the "genteel poor."

[@TheCodeXCantina]

That was a good thirty years ago if it was a day.

[@anridvalishvili5908]

I think the dead is the fall of this firework of dubliners, it is fairly unrealistic, the unfolding of deepest feelings seems very romantical and dostoyevskian bullshit which is completely far from reality

[@TheCodeXCantina]

😂

[@Tolstoy111]

What the hell did you just say?