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Ulysses

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Ulysses	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })James Joyce’s book, his second novel, was first published in serialized form from 1918 to 1920, then collected in book form and republished in 1922. The actual story can be jotted on the back of a matchbox. Taking place on a single day—June 16th, 1904—in Dublin, Ulysses follows the daily routine of three people: young and jaded would-be artist Stephen Dedalus, passive outsider Leopold Bloom, and his sensual, unfaithful wife Molly. As Stephen and Leopold wander the streets of Dublin, Molly lies in bed all day and cheats on her husband. Eventually, Leopold saves Stephen from a beating at the hands of British soldiers and invites him home to recuperate. Stephen visits his home, but declines to stay the night and Leopold joins Molly in bed.The End.The treat of the novel is in its style and the rendering of the characters in remarkable detail, often using their direct Inner Monologue, or having their style of thought influence the third-person perspective. Their meals, visits to the bathroom, work, affairs, prejudices, fantasies, are all recorded. Nothing is spared. Every chapter mimics, parallels and/or parodies a section of Homer's Odyssey (for example, Ulysses' battle with the Cyclops becomes the Jewish Leopold debating religion and politics with a raving, bigoted nationalist with a glass eye). Every chapter is also a literary experiment, where Joyce breaks every rule of novel writing.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Joyce’s Ulysses arguably did for modernist fiction what T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” did for modernist poetry. Notably, the novel and the poem have quite a few thematic and stylistic parallels, with both featuring a pointedly unromantic protagonist, a lovingly rendered portrait of the modern city, a strong focus on the ongoing process of thought and imagination, and a freewheeling structure that can throw some readers for a loop. Uncertainty and self-doubt are also major themes in both works, and the protagonists of both works even mentally compare themselves to Prince Hamlet.As of this writing, the novel has been adapted to film twice, with varying degrees of faithfulness. American filmmaker Joseph Strick directed the first adaptation in 1967, which won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Irish filmmaker Sean Walsh also directed a loose adaptation called Bloom in 2003, just in time for the centennial of Bloomsday; boasting an all-Irish cast, the film featured Stephen Rea (of The Crying Game and V for Vendetta fame) as Leopold Bloom, and Hugh O'Connor (best known as young Christy Brown in My Left Foot) as Stephen Dedalus. Tropers of the '80s also might remember the BBC documentary series Ten Great Writers of the Modern World, which dramatized several key scenes from the novel for its episode on James Joyce.note Memorably, the episode featured Patricia Quinn (Magenta from The Rocky Horror Picture Show) in a cameo as Bella Cohen the brothel madam. There was also a successful stage play called Ulysses in Nighttown based on the famously surreal fifteenth episode "Circe", which is actually written as a play in the book (complete with stage directions).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Not to be confused with The Odyssey.The full novel is public domain, and can be found here.
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Ulysses / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The riffs on Homer's The Odyssey.
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Ulysses / int_20152e12	type	Real Place Background
Ulysses / int_20152e12	comment	Real-Place Background: Joyce claimed that if Dublin was destroyed you could rebuild it from the detail provided in this book. For his research, Joyce looked at phone directories, old maps and pestered his friends for information about Dublin for him to use in his books, making it a highly researched and detailed portrayal of the city.
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Ulysses / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Ulysses / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Usually Bloom, but Martin Cunningham becomes this in the Cyclops episode where Bloom lets himself get into an increasingly vicious argument with the Citizen.
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Ulysses / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
Ulysses / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: The Citizen's enraged response to Bloom's remark "Christ was a jew like me":
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Ulysses / int_2c1696ec	type	GrossOutShow
Ulysses / int_2c1696ec	comment	Gross-Out Show: the book doesn't need pictures to gross out its readers. Frequently.
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Ulysses / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Ulysses / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: In one of Bloom's masochist fantasies, he is turned into a woman and raped by the Brothel Madam, who has turned into a male ringmaster.
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Ulysses / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Ulysses / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Bloom named his son Rudy after his father Rudolf, who committed suicide many years before the events of the story. This makes it all the more tragic that Rudy didn't survive infancy.
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Ulysses / int_34f1b472	type	Mad Artist
Ulysses / int_34f1b472	comment	Mad Artist: Carl Jung read the book and concluded that Joyce was schizophrenic. Joyce retaliated by calling Jung an incompetent psychologistnote especially since he failed to treat his daughter Lucia who he had brought to him.
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Ulysses / int_38e5177d	type	Jews Love to Argue
Ulysses / int_38e5177d	comment	Jews Love to Argue: Almost entirely averted with Bloom, who hates confrontation; except just once, when he calls the Citizen on his anti-semitism.
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Ulysses / int_3cebf628	type	Irishman and a Jew
Ulysses / int_3cebf628	comment	Irishman and a Jew: Played straight, and also subverted in the case of Bloom, who's both Irish and Jewish, although some of the less sympathetic characters regard him as the latter rather than the former.
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Ulysses / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Ulysses / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute / Replacement Goldfish: Stephen Dedalus becomes this for Bloom, especially after he rescues him from some thugs.
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Ulysses / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Ulysses / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Nausicaa, narrated by a drippy teenage girl, acts as a Take That! to slushy romance novels. But there's a twist, in that Word of God says that it's Gertie's own narration; she would love for her life to be a romantic novel, but throughout her narration, reality keeps breaking in (as evidenced by her snarkish asides about her friends) and the occasional gritty detail about her own health problems. She is more in control of her own fantasies than she is usually given credit for. Also Eumaeus, set in and around the cabman's shelter in the middle of the night; the style is deliberately sloppy and rambling because Stephen and Bloom are both exhausted after a long day.
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Ulysses / int_44ba9580	type	The Snark Knight
Ulysses / int_44ba9580	comment	The Snark Knight: Stephen lives this trope with a vengeance; he's so snarky that he can't even be bothered to snark out loud, preferring to do it in his Inner Monologue. As the book continues and his alcohol intake increases, he loosens up and starts speaking his mind, climaxing when his snarkery offends a drunk British soldier so much that the soldier knocks him down, thus attracting the attention of the local police - but then Bloom, who Stephen hardly knows, steps in and defuses the situation.
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Ulysses / int_49b1fe0	type	Beige Prose
Ulysses / int_49b1fe0	comment	Beige Prose: Dropped in, as if from nowhere, late in Ulysses, a conversation done in the style of a catechism (question-and-answer enquiry used in Church).
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Ulysses / int_49d56e94	type	Jock Dad, Nerd Son
Ulysses / int_49d56e94	comment	Jock Dad, Nerd Son: Stephen Dedalus and his father Simon have this relationship, made more fraught by Simon's It's All About Me tendencies. Simon isn't a classic Jock in that although he was a sportsman as a young man he's also a very fine singer, but he's overfond of going on and on about his glorious youth and he's a terrible dad.note Subverted inasmuch as we know this about them chiefly because of Joyce's previous novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which shows their relationship in much more detail. Although they both appear in Ulysses, they never run into each other.
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Ulysses / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Ulysses / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the last Chapter, Molly thinks "O Jamesy let me up out of this pooh" and may be referring to James Joyce. Or something else. It's not really explained.
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Ulysses / int_4b1ca7d2	type	Genre Roulette
Ulysses / int_4b1ca7d2	comment	Genre Roulette: the Circe chapter is written as a play, Ithaca like a catechism, Aeolus like a newspaper column, and the final chapter is a punctuation free list of the thoughts going through Molly's mind as she has tries to fall asleep next to her husband. There are too many examples to list here.
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Ulysses / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Ulysses / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: A famous aversion. Ulysses depicts every aspect of an average day in Dublin, including the main characters' trips to the bathroom. Bloom is described defecating in his outhouse at the end of "Calypso", he and Stephen both urinate in his yard in "Ithaca", and Molly is heavily implied to be urinating in her chamberpot at one point during her famous soliloquy. None of those sequences are actually relevant to the plot; they just add more detail to the characters' world.
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Ulysses / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Ulysses / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Most copies of it are pretty fat books, but the Cambridge Centenary Edition weighs in at 963 pages and nearly 7 pounds weight.
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Ulysses / int_56264acd	type	The So-Called Coward
Ulysses / int_56264acd	comment	The So-Called Coward: Bloom hates violence and confrontation, and spends most of the book deliberately not calling people out on various kinds of Jerkass behaviour. But then a guy he barely knows (Stephen) gets into an argument with two drunk and very aggressive British soldiers, and instead of running away Bloom steps up and tries to defuse the situation. When the soldier punches Stephen to the ground, Bloom gets thoroughly pissed off:
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Ulysses / int_582564f5	type	The Gadfly
Ulysses / int_582564f5	comment	The Gadfly: Stephen is absolutely this in the library chapter. After outlining, at great length in the most elliptical possible way, his theory that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet as a response to his wife's infidelity, he's asked straight out if he believes his own theory. He says "No."
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Ulysses / int_594d1df5	type	No Punctuation Period
Ulysses / int_594d1df5	comment	No Punctuation Period: The entire final chapter contains only three punctuation marks.
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Ulysses / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Ulysses / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Bloom fantasies being 'tried' by all the women he has ever lusted after.
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Ulysses / int_60f92ddd	type	Oireland
Ulysses / int_60f92ddd	comment	Oireland: Every cliche is averted, except for the ones Joyce confirms.
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Ulysses / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ulysses / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: The basic assumption of the book.
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Ulysses / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Ulysses / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Stephen Dedalus. Joyce's first novel (which centered around Stephen) wasn't called A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for nothing, though Joyce is very critical of his avatar. Also worthy of note is the enigmatic man in the brown mackintosh.note Vladimir Nabokov argued in his lecture on Ulysses that the man in the mackintosh is Joyce making a Creator Cameo in his own book, but the evidence is inconclusive.
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Ulysses / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Ulysses / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: On purpose in the antepenultimate chapter. Justified because it's the early morning and the characters have been on their feet all day, so the prose style is correspondingly filled with tired cliches and rambling sentences.
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Ulysses / int_6a6b23ff	type	Unfazed Everyman
Ulysses / int_6a6b23ff	comment	Unfazed Everyman: Bloom.
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Ulysses / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Ulysses / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: The Citizen is an anti-semitic bully, but he takes genuine pride in the skill of Irish craftspeople and the positive achievements of Irish history. If he weren't such a jerk, it'd be inspiring: Shortly afterwards, the Jerkass narrator of the same chapter notices a story in the paper about a lynching in Georgia (U.S.A.), which he responds to with disgust:
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Ulysses / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Ulysses / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In Nausicaa, when we find out Gerty is lame in one leg, to poignant effect (although it's also pretty funny, as Bloom has been leching on her for several pages and he now feels more than usually guilty about it.)
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Ulysses / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Ulysses / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Stephen Dedalus is named for Daedalus, the legendary craftsman of Classical Mythology who built the labyrinth and sculpted Icarus' wax wings; he's creative by nature, and dreams of devoting himself to the craft of writing. Leopold Bloom shares a first name with Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the namesake of the term "masochism" (which is lampshaded when he's shown perusing his writings); he's timid and submissive by nature, and strongly hinted to have masochistic tendencies. "Bloom" also evokes a harmless flower in its prime, hinting at his Nice Guy tendencies.
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Ulysses / int_6de438eb	type	The Everyman
Ulysses / int_6de438eb	comment	The Everyman: Deconstructed. Bloom has some weird trains of thought.
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Ulysses / int_6ec989d8	type	Guide Dang It!
Ulysses / int_6ec989d8	comment	Guide Dang It!: A rare literary example. Spoilers and annotations are often necessary to get what the hell is going on, especially in the eye-watering "Oxen of the Sun".
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Ulysses / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Ulysses / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: Debatable. The actual plot is fairly straightforward, but we get so much insight into the minds of the characters and the themes and allusions are just so dense that the reader can draw an almost infinite number of connections and interpretations from the novel.
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Ulysses / int_796a7bfc	type	Twice-Told Tale
Ulysses / int_796a7bfc	comment	Twice-Told Tale: Of The Odyssey. Downplayed in that, as the literary critic Declan Kiberd has observed, Joyce hardly bothers to draw more than the vaguest parallels between Homer's poem and his own book. note Years later, at a dinner attended by the then-not famous Vladimir Nabokov, Joyce made some disparaging remarks about modern literature using ancient mythology. Nabokov was so amazed that he said But you yourself employed Homer! Joyce replied dismissively, A whim.
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Ulysses / int_7b0b0907	type	All Jews Are Cheapskates
Ulysses / int_7b0b0907	comment	All Jews Are Cheapskates: Played straight in-universe, but subverted for the reader, with Bloom. Early in the book he makes a chance remark to an acquaintance, Flynn, who mistakenly interprets it as a racing tip. Flynn bets on the horse, which wins. Later, Bloom is in a pub and when he goes out for a moment, another character (who's heard from Flynn about Bloom's supposed racing tip) says that Bloom's won a pile of money at the races and must have gone to collect it. When Bloom returns and doesn't stand everyone a round of drinks, it's assumed that, being Jewish, he's being a cheapskate, causing mayhem to break out. In fact, Bloom is seen to be generous with money and completely oblivious of the whole business with the horse.
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Ulysses / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Ulysses / int_83445b04	comment	Stephen's punning snark about Alfred, Lord Tennyson as a genteel and excessively refined writer: "Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet".
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Ulysses / int_8792383c	type	Censorship by Spelling
Ulysses / int_8792383c	comment	Censorship by Spelling: Briefly used for a bit of facetious wordplay in "Nausicaa":
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Ulysses / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Ulysses / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Novels as an art form, and English as a language.
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Ulysses / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Ulysses / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Private Carr, the soldier who punches Stephen.
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Ulysses / int_942ca04a	type	The Bard on Board
Ulysses / int_942ca04a	comment	The Bard on Board: Scylla and Charybdis implies a connection between Bloom & Stephen and Hamlet & his father. Things get significantly more complex when Joyce compares Bloom to Shakespeare himself, and Molly to Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway. Then he compares Stephen to Shakespeare & Hamlet, Hamlet to Shakespeare & his dead son Hamnet (through Stephen's Shakespeare Theory) and Hamnet to Bloom's dead son Rudy.
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Ulysses / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Ulysses / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Leopold is still grieving for the death of his son Rudy, who died years ago. He and Molly have a daughter Milly who has left home to study photography leaving them alone and childless. His marriage to Molly became strained after the loss of their boy, they haven't had sex for ten years. In the Night-Town episode, he briefly hallucinates seeing Rudy. In one episode, Stephen discusses William Shakespeare with his friends and expresses his belief that Hamlet was written by Shakespeare as an outlet of grief for the death of his only son, Hamnet Shakespeare.
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Ulysses / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Ulysses / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: The identity of the Man in the Macintosh. Mr. Breen's postcard with the letters "U.P." written on it. Who sent it to him, what does "U.P." stand for, and why was he so angry about it?
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Ulysses / int_970ccfec	type	Big "YES!"
Ulysses / int_970ccfec	comment	Big "YES!": The very last word, as Molly recalls when she accepted Leopold's proposal.
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Ulysses / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Ulysses / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Despite all that happens to him, Leopold Bloom never looses his deep compassion, his sense of "warm fullblooded life." It's clear from their first scene together that Bloom dearly loves Molly, knowing all to well of her indiscretions.
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Ulysses / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: One of Leopold's hallucinations in the Circe chapter involves him watching Molly and her boyfriend through a keyhole. It is not a real event, and in the hallucination the couple is willing. But, this qualifies as a zigzag of this trope because it implies Leopold does have a desire to be a peeping Tom.
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Ulysses / int_a7faec8e	comment	Written Sound Effect: According to Joyce, the sound a cat makes isn't "meow," it's "mrkgnao."
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Ulysses / int_ae853f28	type	Parody
Ulysses / int_ae853f28	comment	Parody: The Oxen of the Sun episode is written as a series of parodies of different authors, beginning with ritual chanting and imitations of direct translation from the Latin via parodies of writers from Geoffrey Chaucer to Thomas Carlyle all the way down to early 20th century Bowery slang. In chronological order.
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Ulysses / int_aec19d54	type	Hyperlink Story
Ulysses / int_aec19d54	comment	Hyperlink Story: The famous "wandering rocks" section (Chapter 10 of Book 2) is a series of vignettes that briefly looks at various supporting and side characters (including some from Dubliners). The novel has a whole is very much about Leopold, Stephen and Molly but this section influenced and inspired attempts to do novel-length attempts at an ensemble cast, most notably John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy.
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Ulysses / int_aff1ee2e	comment	Small Reference Pools: Averted. In a big way. The scope and quantity of Joyce's references is so vast that there are guides available to help the reader decipher every last one. Sam Slote, Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner's Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses is the most complete, and at 1367 pages it's far longer than Ulysses itself. In particular, Ulysses's period detail (Joyce started writing it around 10 years after the novel is set) is extremely accurate and the novel contains thousands of references to popular culture at the time, as well as to practically the entire Western literary canon, The Bible, Irish, British and Biblical history and tradition, slang, technical terms, geography, art, music, philosophy, mythology, theology, physics, chemistry, biology, botany, rhetoric, politics, economics, philology, etymology and medicine. There are also tons of references to the characters' lives, thoughts and experiences, most of which are never explained.
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Ulysses / int_b016f599	comment	Person with the Clothing: The man in the macintosh. We never learn his true name, although his clothing becomes his name when Joe Hynes, compiling a report on Dignam's funeral for the newspaper, asks Bloom if he knows who the "fellow was over there in the..." and Bloom completes his sentence with "Macintosh." Hynes writes down "M'Intosh" and later on, the newspaper report duly states that someone of that name was at Dignam's funeral.
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Ulysses / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Simon Dedalus: neglectful drunk (based on Joyce's own Dad).
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Ulysses / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Privates Carr and Compton, the two drunken British soldiers who confront and assault Stephen Dedalus in the "Circe" episode, are named after two British consular officials in Zurich Joyce was having difficulties with. Stephen's punning snark about Alfred, Lord Tennyson as a genteel and excessively refined writer: "Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet".
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Ulysses / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The thuggish British soldiers who attack a drunk Stephen. Incidentally, Ulysses is the first work of "serious" literature to use the F-wordnote It was found in pornographic and pulp works but literary critics felt profanity such as this was out of place in works of True Art. Joyce totally changed the game.
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Ulysses / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Leopold Bloom. While he is very pleasant, nothing about him is classically heroic. This was of course Joyce's intention: in the modern world, one has to be as smart and wily as Odysseus to make it through a single day with health and sanity intact.
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Ulysses / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The Circe chapter where Bloom roams the red light district, hallucinating.
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Ulysses / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Leopold and Molly. For all that she experiments with infidelity, Molly seems in the end to be committed to Leopold.
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Ulysses / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Ulysses / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Federal Judge John M Woolsey, in a test case brought by Joyce's publisher in an attempt to get Ulysses imported legally into the USA, ruled that the book wasn't obscene because "whilst in many places the effect of Ulysses on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac." Woolsey's ruling is contained in the introductory section of most editions of the book. While it is somewhat explicit, the very frank and unusual way sexuality is presented would bother most readers who read the entire book.
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Ulysses / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To almost every major novelist and poet in the history of Western literature.
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Ulysses / int_d2d4f0c6	comment	Power Fantasy: Bloom has a very long one in Circe, which, like his other fantasies, eventually descends into a Nightmare Sequence.
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Ulysses / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: All of Joyce's work is set in Dublin or the surrounding area.
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Ulysses / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Molly calls her husband "Poldy." "Molly" itself is a nickname, her real name being Marion.
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Ulysses / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Martin Cunningham is said to have this. Averted with Bloom and Molly. Although she's carrying on with Boylan, in her final monologue she decides that Bloom is the better man and that she's going to stick with him.
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Ulysses / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: The scene in the butcher shop in "Calypso", where Bloom is entranced by the hips of the woman in front of him in line, and even considers following her out of the store just so he can keep ogling her. It's made explicit in the movie adaptation Bloom, where the camera is blatantly riveted on her butt.
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Ulysses / int_e16cedc6	comment	The Long List: Done several times for humorous effect. Memorable examples include the narrator's list of famous Irish heroes (who aren't Irish) in "Cyclops", and the long monologue about water in "Ithaca".
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Ulysses / int_e25ff7	comment	The City: Joyce claimed that if it was destroyed you could rebuild Dublin from the detail in Ulysses.
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Ulysses / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: All over the place. Imagery involving horses, cattle, cats, and foxes (among other things) comes up frequently.
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Ulysses / int_e4c95972	comment	Innocent Bigot: Played with throughout the book, with almost all the male characters displaying various kinds of more or less kneejerk anti-Semitism in the presence of Bloom, who's Jewish and too polite to call them on it. The most notable aversion (and even then it's only partial) is with Martin Cunningham, who when the others are mocking a Jewish guy they've spotted in the street, at first joins in and then remembers who he's sharing a cab with:
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Ulysses / int_e6692d26	comment	Breakfast in Bed: Leopold Bloom usually serves breakfast in bed to his wife Molly, although she turns down breakfast on the day that the story takes place. By the end of the book, Leopold requests Molly make breakfast in bed for him the following day.
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Ulysses / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: While Joyce does support Irish emancipation, he's rather more critical of bigoted nationalists such as the Patriot, although even he has his Jerkass Has a Point moments (see above). Bloom's humorous thoughts during his visit to the church can be seen as mocking Catholicism, but it's in good humour.
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Ulysses / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Shortly afterwards, the Jerkass narrator of the same chapter notices a story in the paper about a lynching in Georgia (U.S.A.), which he responds to with disgust:
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Ulysses / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: Leopold does not come across as a pervert, but see the headings under A Date with Rosie Palms and The Peeping Tom. Leopold is also a transvestite in the sense that Sigmund Freud used the word.
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Ulysses / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Gerty McDowell's narration has a tendency to fall into this.
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Ulysses / int_efbc288f	comment	Heroic Self-Deprecation: Stephen puts himself through this, on account of his failed attempts to get his literary career started:
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Ulysses / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Deconstructed in the Lestrygonians chapter, where Bloom is hungry and is constantly thinking about food, but can't bring himself to eat in Burton's because he's disgusted by the sight of all the other diners munching away. When Bloom finally gets something to eat, Joyce makes a cheese sandwich and a glass of wine seem like the most delicious lunch ever.
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