Similarity between Joyce and His Hero Gabriel:Comment on "The Dead"

James Joyce's short story "The Dead was one of the most popular short stories in Modern English Literature.To a certain degree,the hero Gabriel is the maturity Joyce.Gabriel's epiphany to life and death in the Christmas midnight is also the author's "the adventures of the mind".The paper attempts to explain the similarities between Gabriel and Joyce in terms of their complex national sentiments,political views and thei r relationship with their own wife.It also analysis the device of symbolism used in the short story.