Then Stephen suffers his turn as pupil, receiving along with his salary a tedious lecture from the pompous Mr.

As the apathetic and unruly bunch quickly disperses for hockey, a lone lingerer named Sargent makes his cautious way to the teacher’s desk for help with his arithmetic, and Stephen sees in the boy a pathetic portrait of his own youth. We ﬁnd Stephen at work attempting, with little optimism or success, to teach a history class. Deasy’s school for Protestant boys in the Dublin suburb of Dalkey. They leave the tower together for the swimming hole, where Mulligan, like a good usurper, asks the work-bound Stephen for his key and some money and sets a date for them to meet at half-past noon (to spend more of the latter’s earnings). The two then go downstairs for breakfast with Haines. He also complains to Mulligan about his (Mulligan’s) distasteful comment on the recent death of Stephen’s mother. Stephen has been kept awake by the nighttime ravings of Mulligan’s friend Haines, an Englishman with bad dreams, and wants to know when the latter is leaving. He shares lodgings with a medical student, Buck Mulligan, in the Martello tower at Sandycove, and the book opens with a rooftop exchange between Stephen and the irreverent Mulligan. Stephen Dedalus, in part a self-portrait of the author, has just returned to Ireland from his studies in Paris (to which he was headed at the end of Joyce’s preceding work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man). 3-19)Ĩ:00 a.m., at the Martello tower at Sandycove (on the shore of Dublin Bay, seven miles southeast of the center of Dublin). PART I: THE TELEMACHIAD (THE BOOK OF TELEMACHUS) 1. Citations refer to the 1986 Gabler edition. The narrative “wanders” in a way that celebrates the craft, humor, and meaning of exploration, thereby resembling other famous wanderers: Odysseus, Bloom, the Jews, and Bloom’s simultaneously adulterous and faithful wife, Molly. Stylistically, Ulysses is unique not only because it changes style with every episode, but because the narrative refuses to remain obedient to the story it increasingly peels away from the plot and indulges in independent raillery of the reader over the heads of the characters. Not only does it narrow its temporal focus to a single day, it also widens its scope to follow three major characters-Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and Molly Bloom-and even the city of Dublin itself. James Joyce’s Ulysses, published in 1922, remains one of the most challenging and rewarding works of English literature.

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