![]() ![]() Gabriel is spiritually dead, as he’s unable to move forward and feel deep emotions, he’s walking around in circles like an old Morkan’s horse.īut, at the end of the story, he receives the epiphany – revelation, and disillusionment as he finds out that his marriage wasn’t based on true, passionate love. He feels uncomfortable when someone is opposing his attitudes, and, instead of defending himself diplomatically as an intellectual, he runs away from conflicts. He’s paralyzed by his self-consciousness. Being an intellectual and overly educated, he doesn’t know how to converse with people of different social classes and education. ![]() He cares only about himself and is obsessed with the impression he leaves on others, he has to have everything in control, and otherwise he doesn’t know how to act. ![]()
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