Gerty is a figment of the male imagination even in her own eyes: a product” (Hayman 99). The scholar David Hayman describes the Gerty half of “Nausicaa” as “an artificial voice in a stereotyped world. You might consider that the episode begins in the style of a cheap romance novel and/or women’s magazine. That said, there is some debate over the narrative voice and perspective here. The first half of the “Nausicaa” episode is written outside of Bloom’s normal voice of consciousness, employing a narrative technique called free-indirect discourse: a third person narrator describes both exterior events and interior thoughts. Other women run away from him in a mix of disgust and fear, but Nausicaa, perceiving the nobility beneath Odysseus’s ragged surface, stays and helps him, providing respite from his arduous journey.Īs Ulysses ventures into ever stranger and more disparate literary territories, its styles and voices will continue to shift, shaping our experience of the plot. In The Odyssey, a shipwrecked, storm-tossed, and exhausted Odysseus washes ashore in Phaeacia, where Princess Nausicaa finds him naked and brackish. Dignam to review her late husband’s insurance policy. After escaping the Citizen by carriage at the end of the "Cyclops" episode, Bloom and Martin Cunningham visited Mrs. Bloom is having a rest from a rather busy and draining day. The “Nausicaa” episode takes place at twilight, around 8:00 pm, on the Sandymount strand, where Mr.
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