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Dead and Living Virginia Woolf said,Mr. Joyce is spiritual; he is concerned at all costs to reveal the flickering of that innermost flame which flashes its messages through the brain, and in order to preserve it he disregards with complete courage whatever seems to him adventitious, whether it be probability, or coherence, or any other of these signposts which for generations have served to support the imagination of a reader when called upon to imagine what he can neither touch nor see.” James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, died January 13, 1941. He is Irish. He is one of the 20th centurys greatest writers. His representative works include “Dubliners”, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake”. Although most of the time is far away from Ireland, Ireland is the background and theme of most of his works. Most of his novels based on his early life in Dublin, including his family, friends, enemies, secondary schools and universities. He loved Ireland; nationalism is consistent in his life. The Dead is one short story in “Dubliners”. “Dubliners” is one of the most important books in Joyce’s life. This book was written in 1904. About this book, he said, “My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to be the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under its four aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life. The stories are arranged in this order.” He has already made his preliminary research on Dubliners’ existence and their spiritual world. Particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Ireland faced grand social unrest: the colonial domination of British government, the failure of Irish Independence, the ivory-towered Irish Renaissance and the invasion of Roman Catholicism, all of them made Ireland go into a dead end. The whole society was permeated with a kind of pessimistic mood. Ireland went