How did Joyce choose his titles carefully for different potential meanings in Dubliners?

For the most part, the titles of the stories in
Dubliners each coincide with either the character that has an
epiphany, the place where an epiphany occurs or the event that causes the epiphany. For
instance, in "Araby," the young boy's epiphany occurs at the Araby bazaar. Epiphanies
also occur in "The Boarding House" and in the committee room, in "Ivy Day in the
Committee Room." Characters that have epiphanies are "Eveline," "The Sisters," and "Two
Gallants." As far as events are concerned, the young man in "After the Race" has his
epiphany after the race. The boys in "An Encounter," have their epiphany after that
encounter.

This theory covers most of the stories in the
collection. It does not, however, cover "The Dead." This story's title is chosen to
represent the people who attend the party in the story. A close analysis reveals that
the people at the party are not truly living. This is best represented by the passage
that ends the story:

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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow
falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last
end, upon all the living and the
dead.

This final story
completes the collection in a most profound way. It sums up Joyce's opinion about his
home country of Ireland, saying, as is stated above, that the people at the party, and
in Ireland in general, are not truly living.