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This paper studies how James Joyce represents lifeless Ireland, and explores the significance of Gabriel’s self-awareness as the protagonist of “The Dead.” Joyce employs death imagery to describe the Irish colonized conditions. Death imagery can be said to represent death-in-life and traumatic memories rooted in Irish history. Death is personified by Mr. Browne, and is omnipresent in the novel. Joyce uses Mr. Browne as the figure of death. Mr. Browne implies the religious and political resonances in British-Irish history, and he evokes traumatic Irish events. Ultimately, Joyce presents the hope to establish an alternative future through the self-awareness of Gabriel, a central everyman in Dublin, enshrouded by spiritual death. Joyce seeks the relationship of mutual dependence and coexistence between the dead and the living through the relationship between Gabriel and Michael Furey, the ghost who influences Gabriel’s self-awareness.