The Questions we've decided to discuss for "The Dead"

1. Why is Gabriel so uncomfortable with the women in the story?
2. What's the significance of the motif of song and singers in the story?
3. Mr. Brown's significance?
4. Significance of the horse story Gabriel tells?
5. Details about the food? What's the significance?
6. B'Artell Darcy's significance?
7. Why does Miss Ivors leave?
8. Gabriel's relationship to Ireland and to the Irish?
9. Significance of the snow?
10. Significance of West?
11. What does the end mean?
12. Why is the dialogue so disjointed among the speakers.
13. How does Gabriel construct his identity? How do others' see him and how does he see himself?
14. What's the significance of the title?
15. What are the connections to Dante?
16. What's the significance of the white and the dark?
17. Why are there eyes everywhere?