Using a Heideggerian approach, it understands the story as a series of linguistic incidents and encounters, in which Gabriel Conroy is made to think upon the relations among himself, others and the nation, as an abstraction to which both he and others are supposed to belong. This paper investigates the strategies of language-use in James Joyce's "The Dead " and the relationship between these strategies and the prominent themes of the story,such as subjectivity, nationalism and literature. James Joyce, modernism, Dubliners, hospitality, Gresham's Law
The ‘secondary’ quality of the famous Dublin hotel (built by the second, unknown Thomas Gresham) underscores – and ultimately redeems – the theme of secondariness that runs through ‘The Dead’. Questions of value and valuing suggested by Gresham's Law are shown to be more complicated than they initially appear, as they intersect with the various forms of hospitality traced in the story. Both Gresham's Law and the hotel setting and history enter into and help to shape ‘The Dead’.
This sixteenth-century Thomas Gresham was even better known, however, for his eponymous ‘Gresham's Law’. It was founded in 1817 by Thomas Gresham, who began life as a foundling rescued from the steps of London's Royal Exchange and was thereby given the name of the Renaissance statesman who built that exchange. Dublin's Gresham Hotel, where Gabriel and Gretta Conroy end their evening in Joyce's most famous short story, has a fascinating history.
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