The thematization of time in E.M. Forster's 'The Eternal Moment' and Joyce's 'The Dead.'

9 On his entrance on the scene Gabriel literally shines with artificial light - his black hair is "glossy" (174), his "polished lenses" scintillate in their "bright gilt rims," he flicks 'lustre into his shoes" (174) - and he wears galoshes to defend himself from the cold and snow. Though he "likes music," Gabriel has no talent for it, and as a teacher and literary reviewer, his social role is dependent on linguistic ability: The climactic event of the party is the pompously rhetorical little speech that he delivers to people whom he regards as culturally inferior.

10 As regards the moment and the nature of Gabriel's crucial epiphany, critical opinions differ. Walzl, for instance, affirms that "Gabriel's great moment of epiphany is his personal vision of the cemetery in Oughterard. . . . This moment of epiphanic insight is the climax of the story and the book, and its reality is that of an individual consciousness" (123).

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