Verifica: "Eveline" e "The Dead"

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What does Eveline, the main character of the short story “Eveline”, hear, interrupting her thoughts, while she is sitting by her window?
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Eveline’s parents both died, leaving her alone raising her two brothers.

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In “Eveline” the protagonist finally decides to leave with her boyfriend; What really happens in the end?

Eveline cannot move and she is paralyzed at the dock. She is not able to leave or to come back to her family.

Eveline and Frank leave, but the girl dies, because of a bad disease.

Eveline decides to come back to her family, because she does not love him.

Frank, her boyfriend, leaves her at the dock, because he does not love her.
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Both main characters of “Eveline” and “Araby” are overwhelmed by their real life, without any possibility of realising their dreams.

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The title of the short story “The Dead” can be seen also as a recall of:

the characters of the previous short stories, phisically alive, but emotionally dead.

the death of Joyce’s parents.

the Irish dead people in the fight against England.

the spiritual death of the modern man, who does not believe in God anymore.
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Which author, appreciated by James Joyce, influenced him in the writing of “The Dead”?
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“The Dead” is a short story about the reality and the quotidianity of the Irish middle-class.

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What is the difference between Gabriel, the protagonist of "The dead", and his wife’s former lover?

The passionate nature.

A religious spirit.

The fear of death.

A good sense humour.
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Gabriel, the protagonist of “The Dead”, is the only one character in "Dubliners" who does not have a final epiphany.

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