What is the author's style in The Dead by James Joyce?

"The Dead" can be categorized with stories that are in the realist tradition. A realistic writer will simply try to present life as it is without making a sensational plot or interpreting events. A reader might say that nothing eventful really happens, as is so often the case in real life. In "The Dead" Joyce, for the most part, shows but does not tell. He simply presents the characters' thoughts and actions without comment. Even at the end, when Gabriel has his revelation, the reader is left not knowing exactly what his revelation means. Presentation without comment forces the reader to interpret the events for him or herself.