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In the final scene of The Dead, Gabriel is realizing that his marriage was never really love. "He had never felt like that himself towards any woman but he knew that such a feeling must be love." His wife has been loved by another man enough for the man to die for her, and Gabriel has realized that through all his life, he has never felt that strongly for a woman and hasnt been loved like that in return. He realizes that his life hasnt been significant, and says, "His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world.."He went from a man full of desire for his wife, to a man hurt by the secrets of his wife and then questions his life.