English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1515 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Araby" and "The Dead"
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The idea
In "Araby," a boy idealizing Mangan's sister reaches the bazaar too late and sees himself "as a creature driven and derided by vanity." In "The Dead," Gabriel learns of his wife's dead love, Michael Furey, and watches snow "faintly falling... upon all the living and the dead."
In practice
Two epiphanies of loss.
Where people slip
The endings are moments of recognition.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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