It's set at the Christmas party of Gabriel Conroy's (Christopher Walken) music-loving aunts, where three generations gather each year for a holiday feast. This year, a guest's song awakens a memory for Gabriel's wife (Blair Brown) and revives a long-buried passion. It was dawn when Gabriel and Gretta Conroy, Mr. Bartell D'Arcy, and Miss O'Callaghan left the Misses Morkans' annual dance. There had been some dancing, piano playing, singing, conversing, and dining at the gathering. …showed first 75 words of 751 total…

…showed last 75 words of 751 total…unnecessarily complicates and lengthens the story. The edited version above gets right to the main scenario between Gabriel and Gretta: a man whose wife is haunted by the thoughts of an old love. Even without the minor characters and details, there is still a strong dead theme: Michael Furey, the dead sweetheart brings about Gabriel's realization that his marriage is dead itself. The title still makes sense, even though the story is shortened ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**