fH Think He Died for Me, - She Answered es | James Joyce, Dubliners (1914) ~ The ine, biel nd is fe Grate hove comeback ihn The Chriss po ced ond physical desires his wife; up the staircase t0 their con He aa ae tet fo approach her. Undecided, as usual, about what to do he is su elses obo ; | When Get suddenly comes up to him and kisses him. 2 Discuss it in (EVENANED 1 100k oh ile. What eason might lead person to cle for someone else? Discuss then report to the class. | Gabriel, trembling with delight at her sudden kiss and at the quaintness* of (enn her phrase,* put his hands on her hair and began smoothing it back,' scarcely what she he touching it with his fingers. The washing had made it fine and brilliant. His heart was brimming over with happiness. Just when he was wishing for it she had 5 come to him of her own accord Perhaps her thoughts had been running with his. Perhaps she had felt the impetuous® desire that was in him and then the ix song yielding mood? had come upon her. Now that she had fallen to him so easily he _gierte: wondered why he had been so diffident. He stood, holding her head between his hands, Then, slippings one arm swiftly® (eae 10 about® her body and drawing her towards him, he said softly “Gretta dear, what are you thinking about?” She did not answer not yield* whol ly to his arm. He said : “Tell me what itis, Gretta. I think I know what is the matte soe a (boc wil wound ma 4 She did not answer at once. Then she said in an Biase pe mad 44/0, 1am thinking about that song, The Lasse of Aughnimgs ae She broke loose from him and ran to the bed and hee s wt | Ded-val hid her face. Gabriel stood stock stile for a mene eet armS across the . aru then followed her Ashe passed inthe way ofthe ena eenment ‘ol | sigh ofhimselfin fullengty his broad wel ane Sree aBlasst he caught loge ri 20 expression always puzzled him when he sav it ina mira et he face whose lage toss! gilt-rimumed# eye-glasses. He halted a few mirror and his Blimmerings (cic “What about the song? Why does *s from her and | 7 (on meni: like a child. Alkinder note'thany her eyes wit ith the bs 2s “Why, Gretta?” he asked SISSIES caer eae “Lam thinking about a person lon, “And who was the person long agn ae sed to in Galway’ abriel, smi 0 ing . grandmother.” she said, when Iwas liv a NB with my / ee 2 | Eiht ett ge = Fr Leave oka ln — ty oka 8 dea sajy te “PRO note ap stint” ‘Produc 4 boda Aongth: sw hin ® Ola tg, tonics‘Someone you were in love with’ “ he asked ironically. ‘was a young boy I used to know,” she answered, “named Michael Furey. He used to sing that song, The Lass of Aughrim. He was very delicate.” ee him so plainly," she said after a moment. “Such eyes as he had: big s! And such an expression in them — an expression!” 40 “O then, you were in love with him?” said Gabriel. “used to go out walking with him,” she said, “when Iwas in Galway.” ‘A thought flew across Gabriel's mind. She looked at him and asked in surprise: “What for?” Her eyes made Gabriel feel'awkward.* He shrugged* his shoulders and said. “How do I know? To see him perhaps’. She looked away from him along the shaft* of light towards the window in silence, “He is dead’, she said at length.* “He died when he was only seventeen. Isn'tit a terrible thing to die so young as that’ “What was he?” asked Gabriel, still ironically, “He was in the gasworks,” she said. Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks. While he had been full of memories of their secret life together, full of tenderness and joy and desire, she had been. comparing him in her mind with another. A’shamefule consciousness of his ‘own person assailed himy/He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a nervous well-meaning sentimentalist, orating® to vulgarianst and idealizing his own clownish lusts, the pitiable atuouss fellow he had caught a glimpse of” in the mirror. Instinetivelyihe turned his back more to the light lest she might see the shame that burned upon his forehead. He tried to keep up his tone of cold interrogation" but his ice when hie’ spoke 65. was humble and indifferent. T suppose you were in love with this Michael Furey, Gretta,"he said. “{was great with him’ at that time,” she said. Hor voice was veiled and sad, Gabriel, feeling now how vain it would be to try to lead her whither* he had purposed: hands and aatlwhat did he die of so young, Gretta? Consumption. was it?” think he died for me,” she answered. Ee But he shook himself free gun ina ba. po ad gain fb ws exit Storms clen pe nmr Wenn oth fbn meh ‘The Modern Age 011945) ombud / (cli) oy finaly (ica (emp) i aman / ils veoh peers / ty ‘fot hoeid. He did not (orm) ; \ of it with an ‘tall him of herself* Her hand ce — : question her again for he felt that she wol 1 a .d to caress it (id) t \d to his touch bul / cE warm and moist:* it did not respon fa ot i : Just as he had caressed her istletter ee winer en 18 so “Tt was in the winter” she said, “about the beginning» convert:# And he was shoo nn s going to leave my grandmother's and come up here _ put and his People ' aot po time in his lodgings in Galway and would ping ke ; in Oughterard were written to. He was In decline, they sale, ae f that. I never knew rightly."* i 45 She paused for amoment and sighed. / hab bey “Poor fellow." 4 fond of me and he was such a gentle Dev: boy ‘Poor fellow," she said. “He was very fo ee way they doin | ‘We used to go out together, walking, you know, Gabrie the country. He was going to study singing only for his good voice, poor Michael Furey” 90 “Well; and then?” asked Gabriel And then when it came to the fime forme to leave Galway and come up to the | caent he was much worse and I woukin' be lt see him! so I wrote a letter Saving was going upto Dublin and would be backiin the sumer and hoping he would be better then.” hhealth.!! He had a very 45. She paused for a moment to get her voice under control and then went on: / stopped “Then the night before Ieft I was in my grandmother's house in Nuns’ Island, packing up,® and [heard gravels thrown up against the window. The window smal es ‘was s0 wet I couldn't see so Tran downstairs as I was and slipped out the ‘back® into the garden and there was the poor fellow at the pes at the end of the garden, bode ee (enn) “And did you not tell him to go back?” asked Gabrie [implored of him to go home at once and told him He cA ‘woul rain. But he said he did not want to live. I can see his eyes ee Sen sranatanding ste end 6 eaaTin tet ee ee 405 “And did he go home?” asked Gabriel, » ae “Jes, he went horne. And when Iwas only a only a week in was buried in Oughterard where his people came tia Cee phe that he was dead! m. O, the day I heard that, She stopped, choking® with sobs, and, ove : sao downward on the bed, sobbing in the quit Gabrea ree UNE herself face wd ‘intruding® on her; ‘Srief lett fall gentlyand din / ort 10. wl. itn: b we | Ses west of le 1040 ot nds prts ws er” fiom the east ‘nd ah. Oughta kv ™* aie the oath ‘cid iad 11 ony. itd ot bo wath 12 woulda. im: wes tlw!” i hi: es 13. pcg: papain ry 8* Wee cis 1S. galt bdr, say se ‘eather.GUIDED ANALYSIS 1 Read the first paragraph. From the opening of the passage we realise how much Gabriel is attracted to Gretta: quote. 2 Consider the rest of the passage. a. What is the reason for Gretta's tears? b. Gabriel looks at himself twice in two different ways: quote the lines and say how he sees himself. 3 Focus on characterization. The expressions that indicate Gabriel's emotions have been highlighted for you in the text: * anger © terror * jealousy * tenderness * humiliation = * respect