Gabriel realizes that she has never felt similarly passionate about their marriage. In a hotel room later, Gabriel is devastated to discover that he has misunderstood Gretta's feelings she has been moved by the memory of a young lover named Michael Furey who preceded Gabriel, and who died for the love of Gretta. As the party is breaking up, Gabriel witnesses his wife, Gretta, listening to a song sung by the renowned tenor Bartell D'Arcy, and the intensity of her focus on the music causes him to feel both sentimental and lustful. A professor and part-time book reviewer named Gabriel Conroy attends a Christmastime party thrown by his aunts ( Kate and Julia Morkin, grand dames in the world of Dublin music) at which he dances with a fellow teacher and delivers a brief speech.
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