2. Leopold Bloom
1. What do we know about him?
a. Opening lines
a. 38 yrs old
b. 7 Eccles St.
c. Married to Molly Tweedy
d. children: Milly (15)
a. Rudy (would be 11 in 1904)
e. Class & work?
f. Domestic roles
g. appetites?
2. As Jew?
a. how observant?
b. Dlugacz the pork butcher
c. fantasies of Palestine
3. Bloom vs. Stephen
a. how is each waking from “nightmare” of history?
3. Main issues in Calypso
1. Molly Bloom
a. as wife? As mother? As woman?
b. education?
2. Commercialism & business
a. Bloom’s work as ad canvasser
3. Mass culture
a. popular press, literature
4. “metampsychosis” (52-3)
5. Orientalism
a. Bloom’s revery about Palestine (47)
6. Milly
a. Bloom’s thoughts about (55)
b. in re: Molly
c. as photographer’s assistant
4. Narrative matters
1. Repetition & simultaneity
a. events from 8:00 Telemachus repeated
b. cloud covering sun p. 8, p. 50
c. Turko the Terrible p. 8, 47
d. cattle (Deasy hoof in mouth)
1) Bloom’s work at cattle market (48)
e. Foxeyes (49)
5. Chapter 5: Lotos Eaters
1. How is Homeric story rearticulated in?
2. Key events
a. letter from Martha
b. encounters McCoy
c. goes to Mass
d. buys lemon soap
e. Bantam Lyon: “Throwaway”
6. Orientalism
1. Meaning of orientalism?
2. Bloom at Belfast & Oriental Tea Co. (58)
3. Idealization of Orient
4. In re: Molly
a. youth in Gibralter, father in Crimea
5. Merges w/holy land
7. Key moments
1. Martha’s letter (63)
2. Paradise & the peri (60-1)
a. theme of interruption
b. in re: Moses & Pisgah
3. McCoy encounter
a. McCoy as version of Bloom
1) wife singer, he as ad canvasser
b. “Plumtree ad: “What is home without Plumtree’s Potted Meat”
1) how related to Bloom’s domestic life?
4. Mass (67)
a. Eucharist as symbol for chapter
1) difference between Bloom & Stephen’s treatment of
b. contrast to Buck Mulligan’s satire of Mass
c. Bloom’s response to ceremony
5. The druggist
a. the Lotos-Eater motif
a. meditation on apothecaries (69)
6. The Bath
a. sacramental image
b. the “limp father of thousands, a languid floating flower (71)
