Joyce scholarship on Dubliners asks a lot of questions exploring the male characters' moments of reflection, revelation and trials to define the possibility of their identity and influence in the overall work. But what of the various women who are often the foundation of the scenes and the events? Is their purpose only to provide sustenance, hospitality and listen these reflexive male progratonists? Certain moments in "The Dead" summarize the assumptions of where the lowest and highest women stand in Dubliners' hierarchy.... When considering Dubliners, most of its stories contain female characters whose experiences are brought to the forefront in service to male protagonists; at best or at worst they are subject to having their individual identities all but erased. In "The Dead," Lilly ... is told to the reader to be a pure object of service both to the higher ranking hospitality feminine figures in the Morkan aunts and Gabriel, where food is the key for both the mistresses in charge of the home and this young woman. Lily's character is alternately defined by her brief but vocal rebellion to this mandate at the very beginning of the story. This stark example relates to the direct aim and argument of my writing to refocus on the women hidden by their hospitality in "The Dead" of Dubliners as well as the sisters of "The Sisters" by finding the subtle moments where their identities through food speak like Lily against their assumed and assigned roles.