This character is the main character of a story that follows "Grace" in the collection he appears in, and it is set at the Morkan's Dance.
In one section, the mention of a young man being a gasboy causes this character to feel humiliated because he has been compared to such a ludicrous figure the whole time he has been married. In a speech that this character gives, he believes that the modern generation is hypereducated but that it lacks humanity and hospitality, which leads him to compare three of his city's finest singers to the graces. At the end of the work, he imagines snowflakes falling all across the country he lives in, with special note to them hitting the grave of a man who died after travelling in the rain to see a woman in a convent in Galway. Upon hearing the song "The Lass of Aughrim," his wife begins to tell him about her first love Michael Furey. This character is the main character of a story that follows "Grace" in the collection he appears in, and it is set at the Morkan's Dance. For 10 points, name this protagonist of James Joyce's "The Dead."
In one section, the mention of a young man being a gasboy causes this character to feel humiliated because he has been compared to such a ludicrous figure the whole time he has been married.
Gabriel Conroy (accept either, or both)