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Quote #7
"And haven't you your own land to visit," continued Miss Ivors, "that you know nothing of, your own people, and your own country?"
"O, to tell the truth," retorted Gabriel suddenly, "I'm sick of my own country, sick of it!" (The Dead.130-31)
We're all pretty sick of Miss Ivors by this point, too. But the real point of this passage is that Gabriel's on to something here. And he's really the only character who has gone so far as to actually say that he's unhappy in Ireland. Maybe he's so trapped he just can't hold it in anymore.