Literally through Barry Gorman’s death, subjectively through Hal’s preoccupation with “death itself” and also metaphorically through the death of self in the characters themselves. Through reading the book we are forced to confront the issue of death 2 on many different levels. Dancing would be considered at best inappropriate, more likely as offensive, and disrespectful. Certainly, the English tradition of death is a somber, sorrowful affair. Death conversely is something to be dealt with, an unpleasant reminder of our mortality, we package off our loved ones in a sorrowful ritual, a funeral dirge.
The title of the book is itself both challenging and startling, since we associate inescapably dancing with celebration. In Dance on My Grave 1 we are introduced to death manifested both literally and metaphorically.
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