The Dead - In the final scene Gabriel acknowledges the snow, "falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead" (Joyce 32). Despite his jealousy and sadness upon hearing of his wife's former love, and the constant bickering throughout the Christmas party, he finds that all the people of Dublin, alive and dead are connected. The snow acts as the clean, renewing source that covers them all.