nsitivity to other people's feelings is his impatience at Gretta's distance from him. Joyce writes that, "He was trembling now with annoyance. Why did she seem so abstracted? He longed to be master of her strange mood"(312). Gabriel is angry; he is thinking passionate thoughts and she is not in the mood to engage in intercourse. He wants to be the center of her thoughts, but he is not. It is not until Gretta approaches Gabriel, that he asks her if something is wrong. Her approach is to kiss him, which makes him more comfortable to console her and find out the root of the problem. "She broke loose from him and ran to the bed and, throwing her arms across the bed-rail, hid her face."(313). Joyce's example of her devastation leads into Gabriel's epiphany. Gabriel is finally told that his wife is upset about a man from her childhood is Galway named Michael Furey. She believes that Michael Furey died for her. When Furey was ill, he came up to see her and threw gravel at her window. She then says, " 'I implored of him to go home at once and told him he would get his death in the rain. But he said he did not want to live...'"(314). While Gretta starts to cry about this, Gabriel takes her hand to try to console her and then looks out the window. Upon looking out the window, he starts to put himself in her position and realizes how awful it is to have lived with a secret about a man she truly cared about. He starts to feel her pain and this is the beginning of his sudden epiphany. Another example of Gabriel's awakening is moving to a different area in Ireland. He is going to do this for his wife, rather than himself. In the beginning of Joyce's short story, Miss Ivors had told Gabriel that he should move to "West Briton", and yet Gabriel wants to go to another country because of his hatred for Ireland (297). When he realizes that his wife wants to stay in Ireland for...