![]() It has been dramatized and was made into a film by John Huston in 1987. Like all of Joyce’s fiction, it has provoked an enormous amount of critical and interpretive attention. ![]() The story’s real resonance comes from the complex narrative and thematic subtleties incorporated into its underlying structure. Like most of Joyce’s other narratives, not much seems to be happening in terms of surface action. It is generally seen as playing an important transitional role between Joyce’s earlier, shorter work and the longer, more technically involved later work. In addition to the difference in form from the other stories, it also seems to have a different moral perspective or stance toward Ireland. It is considerably longer than the other stories, and some commentators regard it not as a short story but as a novella. James Joyce began writing “The Dead” in 1907, somewhat later than the other stories in Dubliners, the collection in which it was finally published in 1915. ![]()
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