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In The Dead, James Joyce lets symbolism flow freely throughout his short story. James Joyce utilizes his main characters and objects in The Dead to impress upon his readers his view of Dublin's crippled condition. Not only does this apply to just The Dead, Joyce's symbolic themes also exude from his fourteen other short stories that make up the rest of Joyce's book, Dubliners, to describe his hometown's other issues of corruption and death that fuel Dublin's paralysis. After painting this grim picture of Dublin, James Joyce uses it to express his frustration and to explain his realistic view that the only solution to the issues with Dublin depends on a move to the West and towards a new life, rather than remaining cooped up like Gabriel Conroy in the hopeless city.
On July 3, 1904, James Joyce sent a postcard to his friend Constantine P. Curran exclaiming with excitement that he had just finished a book and that he was now working on "a series of epicleti—ten—for a......

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