Throughout the story he is constantly battling whether or not he should become more personal to the people around, yet any time he attempts to, he ends up being misunderstood or hurt. James Joyce uses snow to reflect his shield or detachment from the people around him. At the beginning of the story, "A light fringe of snow lay like a cape on the shoulders of his overcoat and like toecaps on the toes of his galoshes , but he was trying to "scrape the snow [off] (185). Later he tries to become warm to Lily and has a conversation with her, but when their discussion results in a misunderstanding the story begins to be told in an omnisciently in Gabriel's point of view. It is like he is separated from the rest of the
Throughout the story he is constantly battling whether or not he should become more personal to the people around, yet any time he attempts to, he ends up being misunderstood or hurt. James Joyce uses snow to reflect his shield or detachment from the people around him. At the beginning of the story, "A light fringe of snow lay like a cape on the shoulders of his overcoat and like toecaps on the toes of his galoshes , but he was trying to "scrape the snow [off] (185). Later he tries to become warm to Lily and has a conversation with her, but when their discussion results in a misunderstanding the story begins to be told in an omnisciently in Gabriel's point of view. It is like he is separated from the rest of the