James Joyce was 25 years old when he wrote the greatest of all Christmas stories, The Dead, in 1907. Because nothing says holiday cheer like tuberculosis and an awareness of our own mortality.
, in 1907. His major works—John Huston was 80 years old when he made the greatest of all Christmas movies, released in 1987. Huston’s most famous works—would be his last film.Dubliners
Back in their hotel room, a curious Gabriel probes delicately to discover the cause of Gretta’s sorrow. He finds that the song was once sung to Gretta by a tubercular young boy who was in love with her in the wild country near Galway where she grew up. One night, in a cold rain, he came to Gretta’s window to serenade her with “The Lass of Aughrim,” caught pneumonia, and, a short time later, died.
A lesser writer would have given us a neat, gift-wrapped life lesson in which the boy’s death functions as an opportunity for Gabriel’s and Gretta’s personal growth. Joyce wants much more: a revelation. Gabriel has an epiphany of sorts—on the Feast of the Epiphany—but it is unsettling. He is jealous, though it’s not clear whether of his wife’s young, dead lover or the intensity of the boy’s devotion.
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