Imagery In The Dead

From the short story “The Dead”, Gabriel the character shows us how his point of view of a certain thing is seen. His wife has passed away and his attitude in the story is well seen as neutral.
In the story Gabriel starts off by describing how he is layed next to her, the way he feels. Imagery is used in the story, because every single word or sentence you read can be pictured perfectly in your mind. “She was fast asleep”, that is an example of imagery because automatically you can picture Gabriel’s wife laying down and figuring out she has past away. Another example is “walk along the river in the snow” you picture the person walking on the snow down the river. The “black sneakers” are in the beginning of the story described very well

to see it in your head while reading.Throughout “The Dead” you bump into different techniques. The point of view is one of the important ones in this story because it is being used as the 3rd person point of view. The word “HE” is being used repeatedly and that means it’s 3rd person. For example, when it says “He and she had never lived together as a man and wife”. “He is ny my power” is 3rd person point of view because of using “HE”. In the first paragraph “He did not like to say a strange friendly pity for her entered his soul” is a complete sentence where he is speaking in 3rd person point of view.
In resolution of the story “The Dead” you can see how all these techniques are used based to take us the readers to know what was going on in this story with the characters. The character of Gabriel is pretty well explained and the various aspects that Joyce reveals in the story.