text: This man speculates that he will soon attend a girl's wedding shortly before the girl remarks that men are"all palaver and what they can get out of you.
full_question: This man speculates that he will soon attend a girl's wedding shortly before the girl remarks that men are"all palaver and what they can get out of you." This character tells the story of Johnny, a horse who wasfascinated with a statue of King Billy. Toward the end of the story he appears in, this character feels hisidentity "fading out into a grey impalpable world." He is teased for his dedication to galoshes at a party hostedby Kate and Julia Morkan right before Epiphany. This character feels a "vague terror" seize him after his wifesays, "I think he died for me," in reference to a boy in the gasworks who fell in love with her named MichaelFurey. For 10 points, name this husband of Gretta and protagonist of James Joyce's story "The Dead."
first_sentence: This man speculates that he will soon attend a girl's wedding shortly before the girl remarks that men are"all palaver and what they can get out of you.
raw_answer: Gabriel Conroy [or Gabriel Conroy] 