The Dead

That was the first of anything ive ever read by James Joyce and honestly it was hard to get to the end. I was incredibly bored until the last 1/3 of it. I had no idea where it was going, and maybe that was the point. Everything seemed so ordinary as it was for Gabriel. And then at the end I'm hit with Gabriels sudden anticipation and passion for his wife. Im not completely sure how Gabriel changed by the end of the story, but atleast i think his character changed in that we see a new side of him because we couldnt have really expected it the way the story was going. I'd probably have to read it through a couple more times to get any real appreciation for it, or basically just to understand it more.