The Dead

“The Dead” by James Joyce is a short story of a New Year’s eve party held by two sisters, Miss Kate and Miss Julia. Friends and Family attend the party. They have dinner and dance and sing and share memories with each other. Some memories bringing out the good emotions in people, and others bring out the bad. Through experiences people make memories. People attach things to those memories emotionally that lets them remember …showed first 75 words of 732 total…

…showed last 75 words of 732 total…good, can be brought back by memories. The reader gets to see how characters in the story attach such things as songs and sounds to the emotions that certain memories make them feel. Every memory that people have has something attached to it to make them remember how they feel. Whether its a song, sound, sight or picture it will have some kind of emotional effect on how that person perceive his or her memories.