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Summary

9 am.

Stephen is teaching a history class on the victories of Pyrrhus of Epirus. After class, one student, Cyril Sargent, stays behind so that Stephen can show him how to do a set of algebraic exercises. Stephen looks at Sargent’s ugly face and tries to imagine Sargent’s mother’s love for him. He then visits unionist school headmaster Garrett Deasy from whom he collects his pay. Deasy asks Stephen to take his long-winded letter about foot-and-mouth disease to a newspaper office for printing. The two discuss Irish history and Deasy lectures on what he believes is the role of Jews in the economy. As Stephen leaves, Deasy jokes that Ireland has “never persecuted the Jews” because the country “never let them in”. This episode is the source of some of the novel’s best-known lines, such as Dedalus’s claim that “history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” and that God is “a shout in the street”.

Odysseys Allusion

Episode Notes

Stephen is teaching his students.

  • They are mostly confused by what he is talking about.
  • Before they all leave to play soccer, he tells them a riddle:
  • “The cock crew, The sky was blue: The bells in heaven Were striking eleven. ‘Tis time for this poor soul To go to heaven.” 2.102 The cock crew riddle

A student stays behind and tutors a student:

  • The student somehow mathematically proves “by algebra that Shakespeare’s ghost is Hamlet’s grandfather” 2.151 mathematical proof that shakespeares ghost
  • At the same time, Stephen mind wanders, think how ugly the boy is, yet how “someone had loved him,” and much more TODO TODO

Stephen then goes to collect payment from headmaster Deasy

  • The money is hardly enough for Stephen to pay back his debts
  • Meanwhile, Deasy chastises Stephen: “You don’t yet know what money is. Money is power
 If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put money in thy purse” 2.238 Money is power, put money in thy purse
    • Of course, Deasy is incorrectly quoting Iago, a villain
  • Deasy also brags about being a self made man: ""I paid my way. I never borrowed a shilling in m life. ” 2.253 I paid my way

Deasy then brings up jewish people:

  • Stephen defends, “A merchant is one who buys cheap and slls dear, jew or gentile, is he not?” 2.359 Jew or gentile
  • Deasy says “They sinned against the light
 And you can see the darkness in their eyes. And that is why they are wanderers on the earth to this day.” 2.361 They sinned against the light

They debate History, Religion

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