ENG 342RW Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Conradh Na Gaeilge, Aran Islands
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Interesting that lily is the first sentence of the story, so she"s very important but she never comes back into the story. Her instinctive scorn shows that she has her own social rules and ethics in which she takes pride. The scene betrays the emptiness of his words and behaviour. In the dead , narrative functions in two ways: one is to cover gabriel"s emptiness, the other to uncover it. The picturesque figure of his wife as an image of madonna induces the readers to accept it as a moment of eternal beauty. However it is nothing but his misconception of his wife that creates this madonna-like image of gretta. It is an illusion that is founded in his self-complacent desires. Paradoxically, it is an epiphany which exposes the fatal lack of their spiritual relationship, for while. Gabriel sentimentally romaticises gretta, her mind is occupied by the memory of.
