Summary The fourth chapter of Ulysses begins at 8:00 a.m. with Leopold Bloom making breakfast in the kitchen of the Blooms’ home at 7 Eccles Street. Bloom feeds the cat some milk, walks to Dlugacz’s butcher shop to buy a kidney for his breakfast, and feels depressed as a cloud […]
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Summary “Proteus” takes place at about 11:00 a.m. on Sandymount Strand, which is approximately nine miles from Mr. Deasy’s school. Stephen wanders along the beach to spend time before he meets Mulligan at The Ship pub at 12:30 p.m. He considers visiting the home of his Aunt Sara and his […]
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Summary Chapter 2 takes place at Headmaster Garrett Deasy’s school on Dalkey Avenue in Dalkey, about one mile southeast of the Martello Tower at Sandycove. Stephen would undoubtedly have walked the short distance and would have arrived just after nine o’clock, a bit tardily. His conversation with Mr. Deasy ends […]
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Summary Joyce, of course, did not divide the novel into numbered or titled chapters, but for the sake of reference and clarity, these Commentaries have been labeled according to the standard divisions of Stuart Gilbert. At about eight o’clock in the morning of June 16, 1904, on the stairhead of […]
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Athos A dog that belonged to Bloom’s father, Rudolph. In his suicide note, the senior Bloom asked Bloom to care for the animal. Athos corresponds to Odysseus’s Argos, the faithful dog who waited for his master’s return; after Odysseus returned, the dog died. Alec Bannon Bannon, part of Buck Mulligan’s […]
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Ulysses begins at about 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland, when one of its major participants, young Stephen Dedalus, awakens and interacts with his two housemates, the egotistical medical student, Buck Mulligan, and the overly reserved English student, Haines. The narrative ends some twenty-four hours later, […]
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