{ "schemaVersion": 1, "slug": "a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-pg4217", "title": "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "author": "James Joyce", "language": "en", "spoilers": true, "characters": [ { "name": "Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation", "aliases": [ "the Foundation" ], "description": "A nonprofit educational corporation that supports the distribution of electronic books and solicits donations." }, { "name": "Michael S. Hart", "aliases": [ "Professor Michael S. Hart" ], "description": "The originator of the Project Gutenberg concept, who produced and distributed its eBooks for forty years." }, { "name": "Stephen Dedalus", "aliases": [ "baby tuckoo", "Dedalus", "Stephanos", "Stephanes", "The Dedalus", "Reverend Stephen Dedalus, S. J." ], "description": "A university student and aspiring artist who writes a villanelle inspired by a woman he loves, then reflects on his family, religion, and artistic vocation. He tells Cranly he will refuse service to home, fatherland, and church, and seek freedom of expression through silence, exile, and cunning." }, { "name": "Cranly", "aliases": [], "description": "Stephen’s close friend and fellow student. He urges Stephen to make his Easter duty to spare his mother pain, probes his beliefs and fears, and discusses love, faith, and Stephen’s plans to leave." }, { "name": "Unnamed girl Stephen loves", "aliases": [ "your beloved", "she" ], "description": "A young woman from Stephen’s past who inspires his villanelle. She has an Irish phrasebook and is seen with Father Moran; she later meets Stephen in Grafton Street and speaks warmly with him." }, { "name": "Unnamed flower-selling girl", "aliases": [ "the girl" ], "description": "A poor girl who offers Stephen blue flowers on the street, calling him her own gentleman; he later remembers her as one of the images associated with the woman he loves." }, { "name": "Unnamed kitchen girl next door", "aliases": [ "the kitchen-girl in the next house" ], "description": "A girl Stephen remembers singing “By Killarney’s Lakes and Fells” while working among the clatter of plates." }, { "name": "Unnamed girl near Cork Hill", "aliases": [ "the girl who had laughed" ], "description": "A girl Stephen remembers laughing when his broken shoe caught on an iron grating." }, { "name": "Unnamed girl from Jacob’s biscuit factory", "aliases": [ "the girl who passed out of Jacob’s biscuit factory" ], "description": "A girl Stephen remembers noticing as she left the factory; she calls back to ask whether he likes what he sees." }, { "name": "Father Moran", "aliases": [ "the young priest" ], "description": "A young priest seen in the company of the woman Stephen loves. He discusses Irish-language work and the church with her; Stephen resents him as her paramour." }, { "name": "Unnamed uncle of the young woman", "aliases": [ "her uncle", "the suave priest" ], "description": "A priest and uncle of the young woman Stephen loves. Stephen imagines him reading and approving the villanelle if she showed it to her family." }, { "name": "Unnamed brothers of the young woman", "aliases": [ "her brothers" ], "description": "The young woman’s brothers, whom Stephen imagines laughing over the villanelle if it were shared at breakfast." }, { "name": "Gabriel the seraph", "aliases": [], "description": "A seraph in Stephen’s poetic vision, who comes to the virgin’s chamber." }, { "name": "Gherardino da Borgo San Donnino", "aliases": [], "description": "A figure Stephen invokes while imagining himself as a heretical Franciscan weaving sophistry." }, { "name": "Unnamed woman at the carnival ball", "aliases": [ "she" ], "description": "The woman Stephen remembers dancing at a carnival ball ten years earlier, exchanging a few words and briefly holding his hand." }, { "name": "Unnamed medical student", "aliases": [ "the medical student" ], "description": "A medical student reading a chess problem aloud to Cranly in the library." }, { "name": "Dixon", "aliases": [], "description": "A fellow student who converses with Cranly and Stephen in the library and college grounds. He has urbane manners and a signet ring, and calls Cranly and Stephen after them when they leave." }, { "name": "Unnamed priest reading The Tablet", "aliases": [ "the priest" ], "description": "A priest in the library who angrily shuts his copy of The Tablet and leaves after Cranly and the medical student discuss chess." }, { "name": "Unnamed captain who admires Walter Scott", "aliases": [ "the captain" ], "description": "A small, shrunken man whom Cranly and Dixon address as captain. He praises Sir Walter Scott, whom he calls unmatched." }, { "name": "Sir Walter Scott", "aliases": [ "Walter Scott" ], "description": "A writer whom the captain in the library praises as the finest writer." }, { "name": "Temple", "aliases": [ "the gipsylike student" ], "description": "Stephen’s fellow student, talkative and emotional, who trades barbs with Cranly and challenges Glynn about the church’s treatment of unbaptised children." }, { "name": "O’Keeffe", "aliases": [], "description": "A student among Temple’s group who teases Temple and speaks with Dixon and the others." }, { "name": "Goggins", "aliases": [], "description": "A stout student who joins the group around Temple and is shoved down the steps by Cranly after a crude joke." }, { "name": "Unnamed tall consumptive student", "aliases": [ "the tall consumptive" ], "description": "A tall, dark-eyed consumptive student who joins the conversation around Temple and speaks with Dixon and O’Keeffe in Irish." }, { "name": "Unnamed stout student", "aliases": [ "the stout student" ], "description": "A student standing on the steps who calls out to Temple and joins the exchange with the group." }, { "name": "Unnamed squat student Glynn", "aliases": [ "Glynn" ], "description": "A squat young student carrying a portfolio of examination papers and giving monthly examinations to pupils he tutors. He debates Temple about religion and unbaptised children." }, { "name": "Unnamed student called Moynihan", "aliases": [ "Moynihan" ], "description": "A student whom Goggins and Glynn are said to have gone looking for at the Adelphi." }, { "name": "Unnamed woman singing Rosie O’Grady", "aliases": [ "a servant" ], "description": "A servant heard singing “Rosie O’Grady” from a kitchen window as Stephen and Cranly walk through Pembroke." }, { "name": "Unnamed girl at the library porch", "aliases": [ "she" ], "description": "The young woman Stephen loves, who passes out of the library porch and bows to Cranly." }, { "name": "Unnamed father of Cranly", "aliases": [ "Cranly’s father" ], "description": "Cranly’s father, whom Cranly once described as sixty-one when Cranly was born; Stephen imagines him as a strong farmer." }, { "name": "Unnamed mother of Cranly", "aliases": [ "Cranly’s mother" ], "description": "Cranly’s mother, whom Stephen speculates about in his diary after Cranly urges him to consider his own mother’s love." }, { "name": "Father Dwyer of Larras", "aliases": [ "Father Dwyer" ], "description": "A priest to whom Stephen imagines Cranly’s father paying church dues." }, { "name": "B.V.M.", "aliases": [ "Mary" ], "description": "The Blessed Virgin Mary, discussed by Stephen and his mother in a quarrel about religion." }, { "name": "Pascal", "aliases": [], "description": "A thinker whom Stephen cites as having avoided his mother’s kisses out of fear of sexual contact; Cranly insults him." }, { "name": "Saint Aloysius Gonzaga", "aliases": [ "Aloysius Gonzaga" ], "description": "A saint whom Stephen says shared Pascal’s reluctance about maternal kisses; Cranly calls him a pig." }, { "name": "Suarez", "aliases": [], "description": "A Jesuit theologian whom Stephen says apologised for Jesus’s treatment of his mother." }, { "name": "Jesus Christ", "aliases": [ "Jesus", "Jesus of Nazareth", "the Redeemer", "the Eternal Word", "the Lamb of God", "Our Merciful Redeemer" ], "description": "The central figure of Christian belief, whose relationship with Mary Stephen discusses with his mother and Cranly. Stephen says he is more like a son of God than a son of Mary." }, { "name": "Saint Augustine", "aliases": [ "saint Augustine" ], "description": "A church father whom Temple blames for the teaching that unbaptised children go to hell." }, { "name": "Unnamed child in Cranly’s Nile problem", "aliases": [ "the child" ], "description": "A child who falls into the Nile and is seized by a crocodile in a problem Cranly proposes." }, { "name": "Unnamed mother in Cranly’s Nile problem", "aliases": [ "a mother" ], "description": "The mother in Cranly’s problem who asks a crocodile to return her child." }, { "name": "Unnamed crocodile in Cranly’s Nile problem", "aliases": [ "a crocodile" ], "description": "A crocodile in Cranly’s problem that agrees to return a child if the mother predicts whether it will eat the child." }, { "name": "Lynch", "aliases": [ "Unnamed young man called Lynch", "Unnamed student with an elephantine laugh" ], "description": "Stephen’s fellow student and companion, who follows a hospital nurse with Stephen and later tells him that women remember the past." }, { "name": "Unnamed hospital nurse", "aliases": [ "a sizeable hospital nurse" ], "description": "A nurse whom Stephen and Lynch follow one evening." }, { "name": "Ghezzi", "aliases": [ "little round head rogue’s eye" ], "description": "A fellow student with whom Stephen argues in Italian about Giordano Bruno; he also gives Stephen a recipe for risotto." }, { "name": "Giordano Bruno", "aliases": [ "Bruno the Nolan" ], "description": "A philosopher whom Stephen and Ghezzi discuss; Ghezzi calls him a heretic, and Stephen points out that he was burned." }, { "name": "Michael Robartes", "aliases": [], "description": "A figure from a poem whom Stephen recalls as embracing a beauty that has faded from the world." }, { "name": "John Alphonsus Mulrennan", "aliases": [ "Mulrennan" ], "description": "A student who tells Stephen about meeting an old Irish-speaking man in a mountain cabin in the west of Ireland." }, { "name": "Unnamed old man in the mountain cabin", "aliases": [ "the old man" ], "description": "An old Irish-speaking man with red eyes and a short pipe whom Mulrennan meets in a mountain cabin; he remarks on strange creatures at the world’s end." }, { "name": "Unnamed brother of the young woman", "aliases": [ "her brother" ], "description": "The young woman’s brother, whom Cranly is invited to join for tea and cakes at Johnston’s." }, { "name": "Johnston", "aliases": [], "description": "A person associated with the tea shop Johnston’s, Mooney and O’Brien’s, where the young woman is seen." }, { "name": "Mooney", "aliases": [], "description": "A person associated with the tea shop Johnston’s, Mooney and O’Brien’s, where the young woman is seen." }, { "name": "O’Brien", "aliases": [], "description": "A person associated with the tea shop Johnston’s, Mooney and O’Brien’s, where the young woman is seen." }, { "name": "Davin", "aliases": [ "Stevie’s friend" ], "description": "Stephen’s fellow student and Irish nationalist, whom Stephen meets carrying a hurley stick. Davin asks whether Stephen is leaving, and Stephen’s father describes him as having an honest eye." }, { "name": "Simon Dedalus", "aliases": [ "Stephen’s father", "Mr Dedalus", "Simon" ], "description": "Stephen’s father, whom Stephen meets while speaking with Davin. He is polite to Davin, offers him refreshment, and urges Stephen to join a rowing club and study law." }, { "name": "Pennyfeather", "aliases": [], "description": "A person whose heart Stephen’s father says he broke; no further details are given." }, { "name": "Unnamed boys and young men heckling at the national theatre", "aliases": [ "his scattered fellow students" ], "description": "Stephen’s fellow students who heckle the national theatre performance with cries of protest." }, { "name": "Unnamed burly policeman at the national theatre", "aliases": [ "a burly policeman" ], "description": "A policeman standing behind Stephen at the national theatre during the noisy student protest." }, { "name": "Oona", "aliases": [], "description": "A named figure addressed in a poem Stephen remembers while watching swallows." }, { "name": "Aleel", "aliases": [], "description": "A named figure addressed alongside Oona in a poem Stephen remembers while watching swallows." }, { "name": "Cornelius Agrippa", "aliases": [], "description": "A writer whose phrase comes to Stephen’s mind as he watches birds and wonders whether they are an omen." }, { "name": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "aliases": [ "Swedenborg" ], "description": "A thinker whose ideas about birds corresponding to intellectual things come to Stephen’s mind." }, { "name": "Thoth", "aliases": [], "description": "An Egyptian god of writers whom Stephen imagines writing with a reed and bearing an ibis head." }, { "name": "Unnamed constabulary men", "aliases": [ "two constabulary men" ], "description": "Two policemen Stephen encounters on a country road while praying; he breaks off his prayer to whistle." }, { "name": "Cornelius a Lapide", "aliases": [ "Cornelius a Lapide" ], "description": "A writer whose claim about lice born of human sweat Stephen recalls." }, { "name": "John Dowland", "aliases": [ "Dowland" ], "description": "A composer whose age Stephen summons to mind while walking away from the students." }, { "name": "William Byrd", "aliases": [ "Byrd" ], "description": "A composer whose age Stephen summons to mind while walking away from the students." }, { "name": "Thomas Nash", "aliases": [ "Nash" ], "description": "A writer whose line Stephen misremembers while reflecting on his own thoughts." }, { "name": "Unnamed Doyle’s acquaintance Doherty", "aliases": [ "Doherty" ], "description": "A man with whom Cranly once argued about the shortest way from Sallygap to Larras." }, { "name": "Juan Mariana de Talavera", "aliases": [ "the jesuit theologian Juan Mariana de Talavera" ], "description": "A Jesuit theologian whom Stephen suggests Cranly consult about when a king may lawfully be killed." }, { "name": "Lepidus", "aliases": [], "description": "A figure Stephen invokes in his diary as he reflects on the Nile mud and Cranly’s reasoning." }, { "name": "Unnamed young woman in Stephen’s diary", "aliases": [ "her" ], "description": "The woman Stephen loves, whom he sees at Johnston’s and later meets in Grafton Street. Their conversation is friendly, and Stephen admits that he likes her." }, { "name": "Unnamed woman with whom Davin sinned", "aliases": [ "a woman" ], "description": "A woman who, according to Stephen’s diary, once waited in a doorway and nearly seduced Davin by offering him milk." }, { "name": "William Blake", "aliases": [ "Blake" ], "description": "A poet whose lines about William Bond Stephen quotes in his diary." }, { "name": "William Bond", "aliases": [], "description": "A sick man mentioned in lines by Blake that Stephen recalls." }, { "name": "William Ewart Gladstone", "aliases": [ "Gladstone" ], "description": "A British politician whose image Stephen remembers seeing in a diorama shortly after his death." }, { "name": "Saint John the Baptist", "aliases": [ "the precursor", "saint John at the Latin gate" ], "description": "A biblical figure whom Stephen evokes in a diary entry about Cranly, comparing him to a decapitated precursor." }, { "name": "Elizabeth", "aliases": [], "description": "The mother of John the Baptist, mentioned by Stephen when he reflects on Cranly’s age and compares him to the precursor." }, { "name": "Zacharias", "aliases": [ "Zacchary" ], "description": "The father of John the Baptist, mentioned by Stephen when he reflects on Cranly’s age and compares him to the precursor." }, { "name": "Unnamed race of fabulous kings", "aliases": [ "the images of fabulous kings" ], "description": "Stone figures in Stephen’s dream, seated in a gallery beneath dark vapours." }, { "name": "Unnamed strange figures in Stephen’s dream", "aliases": [ "strange figures" ], "description": "Small, indistinct figures with phosphorescent faces who peer at Stephen in his dream without speaking." }, { "name": "Unnamed old man’s brother, a policeman", "aliases": [ "a brother a policeman in Dublin" ], "description": "A brother of the young woman’s priestly lover, said by Stephen to be a policeman in Dublin." }, { "name": "Unnamed old man’s brother, a potboy", "aliases": [ "a brother a potboy in Moycullen" ], "description": "A brother of the young woman’s priestly lover, said by Stephen to be a potboy in Moycullen." }, { "name": "Unnamed priest at the library", "aliases": [ "the priest" ], "description": "A priest who reads The Tablet in the library and leaves angrily after Cranly and the medical student discuss chess." }, { "name": "Unnamed swans", "aliases": [ "a game of swans" ], "description": "Swans on a rain-soaked lake in Stephen’s recollection of a brother embracing his sister." }, { "name": "Unnamed sister in Stephen’s vision", "aliases": [ "his sister" ], "description": "A young woman embraced by her brother in Stephen’s disturbing image of incest; her face is not seen." }, { "name": "Unnamed brother in Stephen’s vision", "aliases": [ "the brother" ], "description": "A young man embracing his sister in Stephen’s disturbing image; Stephen identifies the caressing hand as Davin’s." }, { "name": "Stephen’s mother", "aliases": [ "Mrs Dedalus" ], "description": "Stephen’s mother, who scolds him for being late and dirty and worries that university has changed him. She asks his sisters to help him wash before he leaves." }, { "name": "Unnamed sister of Stephen", "aliases": [ "one of the girls", "the girl" ], "description": "One of Stephen’s sisters, who answers their father’s call and quietly signals Stephen to leave by the back door." }, { "name": "Katey", "aliases": [], "description": "Stephen’s sister, whom their mother asks to prepare the washbasin for him." }, { "name": "Boody", "aliases": [], "description": "Stephen’s sister, whom their mother asks to prepare the washbasin for him." }, { "name": "Maggy", "aliases": [], "description": "Stephen’s sister, whom Boody tells to prepare the washbasin for Stephen." }, { "name": "Unnamed mad nun", "aliases": [ "the mad nun" ], "description": "An unseen nun in the madhouse who cries out as Stephen passes nearby." }, { "name": "Gerhart Hauptmann", "aliases": [], "description": "A playwright whose women characters Stephen recalls during his walk through the rain." }, { "name": "Guido Cavalcanti", "aliases": [], "description": "A poet whose dark humour Stephen recalls as he walks through the city." }, { "name": "Ben Jonson", "aliases": [], "description": "A poet whose song Stephen recites during his walk." }, { "name": "Aristotle", "aliases": [], "description": "A philosopher whose works Stephen studies and draws on in his developing aesthetic theory." }, { "name": "Saint Thomas Aquinas", "aliases": [ "Saint Thomas", "the angelic doctor" ], "description": "A theologian whose ideas Stephen uses to develop his aesthetic theory, especially his account of beauty." }, { "name": "John Henry Newman", "aliases": [ "Newman" ], "description": "A writer whose prose Stephen admires and whose use of the word “detained” prompts a discussion with the dean." }, { "name": "The consumptive man", "aliases": [ "the consumptive man with the doll’s face" ], "description": "A thin, consumptive man in a brimless hat whom Stephen meets near the canal." }, { "name": "MacCann", "aliases": [], "description": "A fellow student and political activist who promotes a testimonial supporting the Tsar’s disarmament appeal and argues with Stephen about social responsibility." }, { "name": "Unnamed English professor", "aliases": [ "the English professor" ], "description": "A professor whose lecture Stephen imagines attending while he is late for class." }, { "name": "Unnamed rector who taught Stephen Latin", "aliases": [ "the rector" ], "description": "A former rector who taught Stephen to construe Ovid and introduced him to Roman history and Latin." }, { "name": "John Duncan Inverarity", "aliases": [], "description": "A former reader of Stephen’s Horace, identified by his name on the book’s flyleaf." }, { "name": "William Malcolm Inverarity", "aliases": [], "description": "The brother of John Duncan Inverarity, who also once read Stephen’s Horace." }, { "name": "Dublin national poet statue figure", "aliases": [ "the national poet of Ireland" ], "description": "A statue Stephen sees near Trinity College; its identity is not specified in the passage." }, { "name": "Michael Cusack", "aliases": [], "description": "A teacher at whose feet Davin studied Gaelic games and skills." }, { "name": "Mat Davin", "aliases": [ "uncle Mat Davin" ], "description": "Davin’s uncle, remembered as an athlete and for his feats of strength." }, { "name": "Unnamed nurse of Davin", "aliases": [ "his nurse" ], "description": "Davin’s nurse, who taught him Irish and shaped his imagination with Irish mythology." }, { "name": "Fonsy Davin", "aliases": [], "description": "Davin’s first cousin, who minded cool for the Limericks at a hurling match and played among the forwards." }, { "name": "Unnamed young country woman", "aliases": [ "the young woman" ], "description": "A woman whom Davin meets alone at her cottage while walking home from a hurling match. She gives him milk and invites him to stay the night; he declines." }, { "name": "The four French delegates", "aliases": [], "description": "A group mentioned at the memorial ceremony for Wolfe Tone; they arrive in a brake, and one carries a card reading “Vive l’Irlande!”" }, { "name": "Unnamed French delegate with a card", "aliases": [ "a plump smiling young man" ], "description": "One of the French delegates at Wolfe Tone’s memorial ceremony, who holds up a card reading “Vive l’Irlande!”" }, { "name": "Wolfe Tone", "aliases": [], "description": "An Irish nationalist whose memorial Stephen remembers attending with his father." }, { "name": "Unnamed dean of studies", "aliases": [ "the dean" ], "description": "A Jesuit priest who lights a fire and discusses art, philosophy, and Stephen’s education with him. He is a convert from England and advises Stephen to take his degree first." }, { "name": "Ignatius Loyola", "aliases": [ "Saint Ignatius Loyola", "saint Ignatius", "the glorious founder" ], "description": "The founder of the Jesuits, to whom the dean is devoted and whose likeness Stephen sees in the dean’s limp." }, { "name": "Unnamed first arts professor", "aliases": [ "the professor", "the old professor" ], "description": "A physics professor whose lecture Stephen attends; he explains electrical coils and their materials." }, { "name": "Peter Byrne", "aliases": [], "description": "A student whose name is called during the roll in the physics lecture; he answers “Here!” from the upper tier." }, { "name": "Unnamed student who calls out “Try Leopardstown!”", "aliases": [ "a voice from the bench behind" ], "description": "A student who jokes when Cranly fails to answer to his name in the roll call." }, { "name": "F. W. Martino", "aliases": [ "Fresh Water Martin" ], "description": "The discoverer of platinoid, mentioned in the physics lecture and mocked by Moynihan." }, { "name": "Unnamed Ulster student", "aliases": [ "the questioner" ], "description": "A student with a sharp Ulster accent who asks whether the class will be examined on applied science." }, { "name": "MacAlister", "aliases": [], "description": "A student who criticizes Stephen’s involvement in the peace movement, calling it intellectual crankery." }, { "name": "Unnamed student wearing gold spectacles", "aliases": [ "the heavybuilt student" ], "description": "A student who looks with wonder at the Ulster student’s question during the physics lecture." }, { "name": "Unnamed young professor", "aliases": [ "the young professor" ], "description": "A professor whom Stephen sees speaking with the dean of studies in the entrance hall." }, { "name": "Unnamed professor of economics", "aliases": [ "the professor of economics" ], "description": "A squat professor whom Stephen pictures among the college figures in a mocking reverie." }, { "name": "Unnamed professor of mental science", "aliases": [ "the young professor of mental science" ], "description": "A tall professor whom Stephen imagines discussing a case of conscience with his class." }, { "name": "Unnamed professor of Italian", "aliases": [ "the professor of Italian" ], "description": "A plump, roundheaded professor whom Stephen pictures among the college figures in a mocking reverie." }, { "name": "Unnamed college president", "aliases": [ "the president" ], "description": "The college president, whom Stephen sees walking through the garden while reading his office." }, { "name": "Unnamed college bursar", "aliases": [ "the bursar" ], "description": "A portly, florid bursar whom Stephen pictures among the college figures in a mocking reverie." }, { "name": "Unnamed prefect of the sodality", "aliases": [ "the prefect of the college sodality" ], "description": "A freckle-browed priest who urges students to attend an event and asks a boarder to help recruit newcomers." }, { "name": "Unnamed boarder", "aliases": [ "a boarder" ], "description": "A student whom the prefect of the sodality urges to help bring newcomers to an event." }, { "name": "Unnamed professor of English lecture", "aliases": [ "the English professor" ], "description": "The professor whose class Stephen is late for; Stephen imagines the students taking notes in his lecture." }, { "name": "Unnamed dean’s visitor", "aliases": [ "Mr Hackett" ], "description": "A man speaking with the dean of studies, who is addressed as Mr Hackett." }, { "name": "Unnamed student who answers the roll", "aliases": [ "a deep bass note" ], "description": "A student who answers “Here!” when the professor calls Peter Byrne’s name." }, { "name": "Unnamed student who asks about applied science", "aliases": [ "the questioner" ], "description": "A student with a sharp Ulster voice who asks whether the class will be asked questions on applied science." }, { "name": "Unnamed student with olive skin", "aliases": [ "the gipsylike student", "Temple" ], "description": "Temple, a fellow student who admires Stephen’s remark about the Tsar’s image and presses him about belief and the mind. He is an emotional, talkative believer in universal brotherhood, and Cranly repeatedly tries to restrain him." }, { "name": "Czar Nicholas II", "aliases": [ "the Tsar" ], "description": "The Russian ruler whose photograph accompanies a student testimonial calling for disarmament." }, { "name": "Unnamed stout ruddy student", "aliases": [ "the stout ruddy student" ], "description": "A student who urges Temple to speak and offers to buy him a pint." }, { "name": "John Anthony Collins", "aliases": [ "Collins" ], "description": "A philosopher whom Temple calls an Irishman and an early advocate of freedom of thought." }, { "name": "Lottie Collins", "aliases": [], "description": "John Anthony Collins’s sister, mentioned in a bawdy rhyme sung by Moynihan." }, { "name": "William Thomas Stead", "aliases": [ "Stead" ], "description": "A person MacCann cites while promoting the Tsar’s disarmament appeal." }, { "name": "Unnamed student who mocks Temple", "aliases": [ "a thin voice from the verge of the ring" ], "description": "A student who responds “Pip! pip!” to Temple’s speech." }, { "name": "Unnamed student near the library", "aliases": [ "a lean student with olive skin" ], "description": "A student who joins the group listening to Stephen and MacCann argue, but does not speak." }, { "name": "Unnamed players in the handball game", "aliases": [ "the players" ], "description": "Students who play handball in the college garden while Stephen talks with Davin." }, { "name": "Unnamed student called Horan", "aliases": [ "Horan" ], "description": "A student with whom Lynch says he went drinking the previous night." }, { "name": "Unnamed student called Goggins", "aliases": [ "Goggins" ], "description": "A student with whom Lynch says he went drinking the previous night." }, { "name": "Unnamed fat student", "aliases": [ "Donovan" ], "description": "A student who reports examination results to Stephen and Lynch, describes his studies and field-club outings, and mentions that his sister may make pancakes." }, { "name": "Griffin", "aliases": [], "description": "A student who failed an examination, according to Donovan." }, { "name": "Halpin", "aliases": [], "description": "A student who passed the home civil service examination, according to Donovan." }, { "name": "O’Flynn", "aliases": [], "description": "A student who passed the home civil service examination, according to Donovan." }, { "name": "O’Shaughnessy", "aliases": [], "description": "A student who placed fourteenth in an examination, according to Donovan." }, { "name": "MacCullagh", "aliases": [], "description": "A student taking pure mathematics, mentioned by Donovan." }, { "name": "Unnamed sister of Donovan", "aliases": [ "his sister" ], "description": "Donovan’s sister, who may have intended to make pancakes for the family dinner." }, { "name": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "aliases": [ "Goethe" ], "description": "A writer whom Donovan mentions as having written about aesthetics." }, { "name": "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing", "aliases": [ "Lessing" ], "description": "A writer whose work on aesthetics Donovan mentions and Stephen discusses." }, { "name": "Luigi Galvani", "aliases": [], "description": "An Italian physiologist whose phrase “the enchantment of the heart” Stephen cites." }, { "name": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "aliases": [ "Shelley" ], "description": "A poet whose image of the mind as a fading coal Stephen invokes while discussing beauty." }, { "name": "Venantius Fortunatus", "aliases": [], "description": "A poet whose hymn Vexilla Regis Stephen admires." }, { "name": "Hynes", "aliases": [], "description": "A person whose experience working in Liverpool is discussed by students; they say he considers it a frightful place." }, { "name": "Unnamed girl in a London hansom", "aliases": [ "the girl" ], "description": "A girl on her way to meet her mother after many years apart who dies when glass from a shattered hansom window pierces her heart, in Stephen’s example about tragedy." }, { "name": "Unnamed mother of the girl in London", "aliases": [ "her mother" ], "description": "The mother whom the girl in Stephen’s example is travelling to meet after many years apart." }, { "name": "Unnamed butcher’s boy", "aliases": [ "a butcher’s boy" ], "description": "A boy carrying an inverted basket on his head, which Stephen uses to explain his theory of aesthetic apprehension." }, { "name": "Sir Philip Crampton", "aliases": [], "description": "The subject of a bust Stephen uses in a hypothetical question about whether a work of art is lyrical, epical, or dramatic." }, { "name": "Mona Lisa", "aliases": [], "description": "The subject of a portrait Stephen uses in a hypothetical question about aesthetic desire." }, { "name": "John Milton", "aliases": [], "description": "A writer referred to indirectly as the philosopher of Middlesex in Temple’s speech about John Anthony Collins." }, { "name": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "aliases": [ "Jean Jacques Rousseau" ], "description": "A philosopher whom Temple asks Stephen about; Stephen calls him an emotional man." }, { "name": "Unnamed young man who died in London", "aliases": [ "the girl in the hansom" ], "description": "A girl whose death is reported as tragic after a shard of glass pierces her heart." }, { "name": "Unnamed medical students", "aliases": [ "two friends" ], "description": "Two friends who have passed their final medical examination, mentioned in conversation near the library." }, { "name": "Unnamed student named Moonan", "aliases": [ "Mr Moonan" ], "description": "A student who placed fifth in the Indian examination, as reported by Donovan." }, { "name": "Unnamed student named Griffin", "aliases": [ "Griffin" ], "description": "A student who failed an examination, according to Donovan." }, { "name": "Unnamed preacher", "aliases": [ "the preacher" ], "description": "The retreat preacher at Belvedere, identified earlier as Father Arnall. He concludes his sermons by leading the boys in an act of contrition." }, { "name": "Father Arnall", "aliases": [], "description": "A Jesuit teacher at Clongowes who treated Stephen gently when his glasses were broken and later preached the Belvedere retreat sermons. His final sermon urges the boys to repent." }, { "name": "Unnamed capuchin priest", "aliases": [ "the priest", "the old priest" ], "description": "A weary, grey-bearded Capuchin who hears Stephen’s confession, advises him to give up his sexual sin and pray to Mary, and grants him absolution." }, { "name": "Unnamed old woman with an oilcan", "aliases": [ "an old woman" ], "description": "A woman Stephen asks for directions to a chapel; she directs him to Church Street chapel." }, { "name": "Unnamed penitents", "aliases": [ "the penitents", "the faithful" ], "description": "People praying at the church who enter the confessionals before Stephen; their humble devotion moves him." }, { "name": "Unnamed woman confessing", "aliases": [ "the woman" ], "description": "A woman who enters a confessional before Stephen and is heard whispering her confession." }, { "name": "Unnamed priest celebrating mass", "aliases": [ "the priest" ], "description": "A priest distributing communion to Stephen and his classmates in the college chapel." }, { "name": "Unnamed priestly director", "aliases": [ "the director", "the priest" ], "description": "A Jesuit director at Belvedere who speaks privately with Stephen about joining the order and presents the priesthood as a vocation. Stephen declines the implied call." }, { "name": "Unnamed farmhand with a hat", "aliases": [ "the man with the hat", "the solitary farmhand" ], "description": "A farmhand working in the kitchen gardens behind the Dedalus house, nicknamed by the family for his hat." }, { "name": "Unnamed brother of Stephen at the table", "aliases": [ "his youngest brother" ], "description": "One of Stephen’s younger siblings, who sings “Oft in the Stilly Night” with the others at home." }, { "name": "Unnamed sibling of Stephen who answers him", "aliases": [ "one answered" ], "description": "A sibling at the family table who tells Stephen that their parents have gone to look at a house." }, { "name": "Unnamed sibling who replies about the landlord", "aliases": [ "still another" ], "description": "A sibling at the family table who explains that the landlord will put them out." }, { "name": "Unnamed Belvedere schoolboy Fallon", "aliases": [ "Fallon" ], "description": "A Belvedere pupil who had teased Stephen by asking why his family moved so often." }, { "name": "Dan Crosby", "aliases": [ "the tutor" ], "description": "A tutor who accompanies Simon Dedalus to inquire about the university for Stephen." }, { "name": "Brother Hickey", "aliases": [], "description": "A Christian Brother whom Stephen sees crossing a bridge with a group of Brothers." }, { "name": "Brother Quaid", "aliases": [], "description": "A Christian Brother whom Stephen sees crossing a bridge with a group of Brothers." }, { "name": "Brother MacArdle", "aliases": [], "description": "A Christian Brother whom Stephen sees crossing a bridge with a group of Brothers." }, { "name": "Brother Keogh", "aliases": [], "description": "A Christian Brother whom Stephen sees crossing a bridge with a group of Brothers." }, { "name": "Unnamed young man leading the concertina quartet", "aliases": [ "their leader" ], "description": "The leader of a quartet of young men playing a concertina as Stephen leaves the college director." }, { "name": "Unnamed young men in the concertina quartet", "aliases": [ "a quartet of young men" ], "description": "Three young men who walk arm in arm with their concertina-playing leader near the college." }, { "name": "Unnamed schoolboy called Lantern Jaws or Foxy Campbell", "aliases": [ "Lantern Jaws", "Foxy Campbell" ], "description": "A Jesuit whom some boys identify as the imagined face Stephen associates with the life of the order." }, { "name": "Thomas Babington Macaulay", "aliases": [ "Lord Macaulay" ], "description": "A writer whom a priest says probably never committed a deliberate mortal sin." }, { "name": "Victor Hugo", "aliases": [], "description": "A French writer discussed by a priest, who says Hugo wrote better before turning against the Church." }, { "name": "Louis Veuillot", "aliases": [], "description": "A French writer whom a priest cites as having a purer French style than Victor Hugo." }, { "name": "Simon Magus", "aliases": [], "description": "A biblical figure whose sin Stephen imagines he might learn about if he became a priest." }, { "name": "Saint Stephen", "aliases": [ "the first martyr", "Stephen’s holy patron saint" ], "description": "Stephen’s patron saint, whom the director urges him to ask for help discerning a religious vocation." }, { "name": "Saint Alphonsus Liguori", "aliases": [ "saint Alphonsus" ], "description": "The author of a devotional book Stephen reads during visits to the Blessed Sacrament." }, { "name": "Unnamed boys who ran away", "aliases": [ "many of the boys who sat in those front benches" ], "description": "Former Belvedere pupils mentioned by the preacher as potentially abroad, studying, working, at sea, or dead." }, { "name": "Unnamed companions bathing in the sea", "aliases": [ "the boys", "the bathers" ], "description": "Stephen’s schoolmates at the shore who call out to him and tease him as he watches them swim." }, { "name": "Dwyer", "aliases": [], "description": "One of the boys at the shore, whom another tells to stop teasing Stephen." }, { "name": "Towser", "aliases": [], "description": "A boy at the shore whom his companions urge to duck and dunk another swimmer." }, { "name": "Shuley", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Stephen’s schoolmates at the shore, recognized by his usual collar." }, { "name": "Ennis", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Stephen’s schoolmates at the shore, recognized by his usual scarlet belt." }, { "name": "Connolly", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Stephen’s schoolmates at the shore, recognized by his usual Norfolk coat." }, { "name": "Unnamed girl standing in the stream", "aliases": [ "the girl" ], "description": "A young woman Stephen sees standing alone in the water at the strand. Her silent gaze becomes a vision of youthful beauty and freedom for him." }, { "name": "Unnamed servant of God who saw hell", "aliases": [ "a holy saint", "one of our own fathers" ], "description": "A saint, unidentified by name, who is said by the preacher to have received a vision of hell." }, { "name": "Unnamed soldier in the sermon", "aliases": [ "the brutal soldiers" ], "description": "A soldier among those who mocked Jesus during the crucifixion, mentioned in the preacher’s sermon." }, { "name": "Unnamed Jewish mockers in the sermon", "aliases": [ "the cruel jews" ], "description": "People who mocked Jesus during the crucifixion, mentioned in the preacher’s sermon." }, { "name": "Unnamed woman with whom Stephen sinned", "aliases": [ "women" ], "description": "Women with whom Stephen says he committed sexual sins; they are not individually identified." }, { "name": "Unnamed family siblings at the table", "aliases": [ "his brothers and sisters", "the others" ], "description": "Stephen’s brothers and sisters sitting around the kitchen table; they sing together and show no resentment toward him." }, { "name": "Unnamed boy who speaks in code", "aliases": [ "one" ], "description": "A sibling who answers Stephen’s question about the family’s move using a playful alteration of the words." }, { "name": "Unnamed old lady in the sermon", "aliases": [ "the soul that has strayed" ], "description": "Not a person; omit" }, { "name": "Johnny Cashman", "aliases": [], "description": "An elderly Cork friend of Simon Dedalus, whom Simon calls a little old man. He teases Stephen about girls, recalls Stephen’s father and grandfather, and drinks with Simon." }, { "name": "Unnamed Cork companion", "aliases": [ "the gentleman who had spoken before", "one of the company" ], "description": "A companion of Simon Dedalus and Johnny Cashman who comments on Cashman’s age and tells Simon it is time to take a back seat." }, { "name": "Unnamed bar attendant", "aliases": [ "Tim or Tom or whatever your name is" ], "description": "A person at the bar whom Simon Dedalus calls on to bring another round of drinks; the text does not establish their exact role or name." }, { "name": "Stephen’s grandfather", "aliases": [ "his grandfather" ], "description": "Stephen’s grandfather, remembered by Johnny Cashman riding to hounds in a red coat. Simon says Stephen resembles him." }, { "name": "John Stephen Dedalus", "aliases": [ "old John Stephen Dedalus", "Stephen’s great-grandfather" ], "description": "Stephen’s great-grandfather, remembered by Johnny Cashman as a fierce old fire-eater." }, { "name": "Unnamed brother of Stephen", "aliases": [ "his brother" ], "description": "Stephen’s brother, who waits with their mother and a cousin while Stephen and his father collect the prize money. Stephen later feels distant from him." }, { "name": "Unnamed cousin of Stephen", "aliases": [ "one of his cousins" ], "description": "A cousin of Stephen who waits with his mother and brother while Stephen and his father collect the prize money." }, { "name": "Unnamed bank teller", "aliases": [ "the friendly teller" ], "description": "A teller at the Bank of Ireland who pays Stephen his prize money, chats with his father, and wishes Stephen a brilliant career." }, { "name": "Hely Hutchinson", "aliases": [ "Stephen Hely Hutchinson" ], "description": "A former Irish politician whom Simon Dedalus praises among the leaders of the old Irish parliament." }, { "name": "Henry Flood", "aliases": [ "Flood" ], "description": "A former Irish politician whom Simon Dedalus praises among the leaders of the old Irish parliament." }, { "name": "Henry Grattan", "aliases": [ "Grattan" ], "description": "A former Irish politician whom Simon Dedalus praises among the leaders of the old Irish parliament." }, { "name": "Charles Kendal Bushe", "aliases": [ "Bushe" ], "description": "A former Irish political figure whom Simon Dedalus praises among the leaders of the old Irish parliament." }, { "name": "Unnamed young woman", "aliases": [ "the young woman in the pink gown", "Willie’s companion" ], "description": "A woman in the red-light district who calls Stephen “Willie dear,” brings him to her room, embraces and kisses him. Stephen finds comfort and release in her affection." }, { "name": "Claude Melnotte", "aliases": [], "description": "A character whose romantic speeches Stephen recalls from The Lady of Lyons while imagining a future meeting with Mercedes." }, { "name": "Emma", "aliases": [], "description": "A girl Stephen has loved and whose innocence he feels he has violated in his fantasies and secret writings. In an imagined scene, the Blessed Virgin joins their hands and assures them they are still her children." }, { "name": "Unnamed schoolboy Ennis", "aliases": [ "Ennis" ], "description": "A Belvedere pupil whose confused answer about surds prompts the teacher’s rebuke." }, { "name": "Unnamed boy from the house", "aliases": [ "the boy from the house" ], "description": "A boy who comes up from the house to summon the rector." }, { "name": "Unnamed tall schoolboy", "aliases": [ "the tall boy" ], "description": "A tall pupil seated behind Stephen who predicts the rector’s absence and urges Stephen to ask him a difficult question." }, { "name": "Unnamed Belvedere rector", "aliases": [ "the rector" ], "description": "The rector of Belvedere, who announces the retreat and explains Saint Francis Xavier’s life. He later delivers sermons on death, judgment, hell, and spiritual punishment that deeply frighten Stephen." }, { "name": "Vincent Heron", "aliases": [ "Heron" ], "description": "Stephen’s school friend and rival at Belvedere. During the retreat he hums and later stands with Mr Tate discussing the rain and a planned bicycle ride." }, { "name": "Mr Tate", "aliases": [], "description": "Stephen’s English master at Belvedere. After the retreat sermon he talks with Heron at the classroom window." }, { "name": "Unnamed fellow student who calls the rector’s arrival", "aliases": [ "the boy at the window" ], "description": "A pupil who spots the rector coming from the house and alerts the class." }, { "name": "Saint Francis Xavier", "aliases": [ "saint Francis Xavier" ], "description": "The patron saint of Belvedere, honored in the college retreat. The rector recounts his missionary work and Stephen listens to sermons given for his feast." }, { "name": "Unnamed boy who urges Stephen to ask a question", "aliases": [ "the tall boy in the bench behind" ], "description": "A pupil seated behind Stephen who gives him a quiet kick to prompt him to ask the rector a difficult catechism question." }, { "name": "Unnamed messenger announcing confessions", "aliases": [ "a messenger" ], "description": "A messenger who tells Stephen’s class that confessions are being heard in the chapel." }, { "name": "Unnamed boys leaving for confession", "aliases": [ "four boys" ], "description": "Four pupils who leave the classroom for confession during the retreat." }, { "name": "Unnamed young earl of Warwick", "aliases": [ "the wicked young earl of Warwick" ], "description": "A young nobleman whom Addison summoned to witness how a Christian could face death; he is mentioned in the preacher’s sermon." }, { "name": "Joseph Addison", "aliases": [ "Addison" ], "description": "An English writer whose deathbed example is cited by the preacher: he summoned the young Earl of Warwick to see a Christian meet death." }, { "name": "Adam", "aliases": [], "description": "The first man in the preacher’s account of humanity’s fall; he eats the forbidden fruit after Eve gives it to him." }, { "name": "Eve", "aliases": [], "description": "The first woman in the preacher’s account of humanity’s fall; tempted by Satan, she eats the forbidden fruit and gives it to Adam." }, { "name": "Lucifer", "aliases": [ "Satan", "the devil", "the arch tempter" ], "description": "The angel who falls from heaven through pride and later tempts Eve in the form of a serpent. The preacher describes him as the source of humanity’s fall and the tempter of sinners." }, { "name": "Saint Michael the Archangel", "aliases": [ "Michael, prince of the heavenly host", "the archangel Michael" ], "description": "The prince of the heavenly host, who appears in the preacher’s account to drive Adam and Eve from Eden and is also described as the herald of the Last Judgment." }, { "name": "Saint Anselm", "aliases": [ "saint Anselm" ], "description": "A saint whose writing on similitudes is cited by the preacher to describe the helplessness of the damned." }, { "name": "Saint Bonaventure", "aliases": [ "saint Bonaventure" ], "description": "A saint cited by the preacher for saying that the stench of one damned soul would be enough to infect the whole world." }, { "name": "Saint Catherine of Siena", "aliases": [ "saint Catherine" ], "description": "A saint whose account of seeing a devil is cited by the preacher to emphasize the horror of demons." }, { "name": "Pope Innocent III", "aliases": [ "Pope Innocent the Third" ], "description": "A pope cited by the preacher as calling the remorse of the damned the worm of conscience." }, { "name": "Unnamed man who asks the devil a question", "aliases": [ "a certain soldier" ], "description": "A soldier in a story recounted by the preacher, who asks the devil about the fire of hell." }, { "name": "Unnamed schoolboy who remarks on the sermon", "aliases": [ "one of the boys" ], "description": "A pupil who says that the preacher has put them all into a blue funk." }, { "name": "Father Dolan", "aliases": [ "the prefect of studies", "Baldyhead Dolan" ], "description": "A Clongowes authority who strikes Stephen with a pandybat for not writing his theme, despite Stephen’s broken glasses. The rector later tells Stephen he will speak to Father Dolan about the mistake." }, { "name": "Fleming", "aliases": [], "description": "Stephen’s fellow pupil, who supports him after Father Dolan punishes him for not writing with his broken glasses." }, { "name": "Nasty Roche", "aliases": [ "Roche" ], "description": "A fellow pupil who asks Stephen whether his glasses broke by accident and urges him to tell the rector about Father Dolan." }, { "name": "Cecil Thunder", "aliases": [ "Thunder" ], "description": "A fellow pupil who says Father Dolan was not allowed to raise the pandybat over his shoulder and encourages Stephen to report the punishment." }, { "name": "Unnamed fellow who declares Stephen wrongly punished", "aliases": [ "a fellow out of second of grammar" ], "description": "A pupil who jokes that the senate and Roman people declared Stephen wrongly punished, encouraging him to appeal to the rector." }, { "name": "Corrigan", "aliases": [], "description": "A large pupil in the higher line who is to be flogged by Mr Gleeson." }, { "name": "Paddy Rath", "aliases": [], "description": "A fellow pupil in the higher line at Clongowes." }, { "name": "Jimmy Magee", "aliases": [], "description": "A fellow pupil in the higher line at Clongowes." }, { "name": "Unnamed Spanish pupil", "aliases": [ "the Spaniard" ], "description": "A pupil in the higher line at Clongowes." }, { "name": "Unnamed Portuguese pupil", "aliases": [ "the Portuguese" ], "description": "A pupil in the higher line at Clongowes." }, { "name": "Unnamed rector", "aliases": [ "the rector", "Conmee" ], "description": "The kind-looking rector of Clongowes, who excuses Stephen from lessons while he awaits new glasses and promises to speak to Father Dolan. The boys cheer him as Conmee after Stephen reports the outcome." }, { "name": "Unnamed old servant", "aliases": [ "the old servant" ], "description": "A Clongowes servant who directs Stephen to the rector’s room." }, { "name": "Lorenzo Ricci", "aliases": [], "description": "A Jesuit figure whose portrait Stephen imagines in the college corridor." }, { "name": "Saint Stanislaus Kostka", "aliases": [], "description": "One of the patrons of holy youth, imagined by Stephen among the portraits in the college corridor." }, { "name": "Saint Aloysius Gonzago", "aliases": [], "description": "One of the patrons of holy youth, imagined by Stephen among the portraits in the college corridor." }, { "name": "Blessed John Berchmans", "aliases": [], "description": "One of the patrons of holy youth, imagined by Stephen among the portraits in the college corridor." }, { "name": "Father Peter Kenny", "aliases": [], "description": "A Jesuit figure whose portrait Stephen imagines in the college corridor, seated and wrapped in a cloak." }, { "name": "Unnamed old lady", "aliases": [ "the drunken old harridan" ], "description": "A woman who heckled Mr Casey at a political meeting in Arklow and whom he says he spat at. In this passage she is also among the figures Stephen remembers from the argument over Parnell." }, { "name": "Hamilton Rowan", "aliases": [], "description": "A historical figure associated with Clongowes, whose passage through the castle Stephen recalls." }, { "name": "Unnamed ghost of a marshal", "aliases": [ "the ghost in the white cloak of a marshal" ], "description": "A ghost said to have been seen by old servants at Clongowes." }, { "name": "Uncle Charles", "aliases": [ "Stephen’s granduncle" ], "description": "Stephen’s elderly great-uncle, who accompanies him through the summer in Blackrock and later lives with the family in Dublin. He has squandered a large fortune in Cork and becomes too frail to run errands." }, { "name": "Mike Flynn", "aliases": [], "description": "An old friend of Stephen’s father and Stephen’s running trainer in Blackrock. He later goes into hospital." }, { "name": "Aubrey Mills", "aliases": [ "Aubrey" ], "description": "Stephen’s boyhood friend and ally in a gang of adventurers in Blackrock." }, { "name": "Mercedes", "aliases": [], "description": "The beloved woman in Stephen’s reading of The Count of Monte Cristo, whose image shapes his romantic fantasies. He also imagines a woman named Mercedes living near Blackrock." }, { "name": "Eileen Vance", "aliases": [ "Eileen" ], "description": "The Vances’ daughter and Stephen’s childhood friend. He remembers her laughing and running at a hotel and recalls their earlier childhood friendship." }, { "name": "Unnamed milkman", "aliases": [ "the milkman" ], "description": "A milk delivery driver whose car Stephen sometimes rides during the Blackrock summer." }, { "name": "Unnamed aunt", "aliases": [ "Stephen’s aunt" ], "description": "Stephen’s aunt, with whom he visits and whose kitchen he sits in while she reads the evening paper." }, { "name": "Mabel Hunter", "aliases": [], "description": "A woman whose photograph in the evening paper fascinates Stephen’s aunt and a young girl; she is described as appearing in a pantomime." }, { "name": "Unnamed ringletted girl", "aliases": [ "the child" ], "description": "A young girl who admires Mabel Hunter’s picture while leaning against her mother’s sleeve." }, { "name": "Unnamed boy carrying coal", "aliases": [ "the boy who came in from the street" ], "description": "A boy who enters the kitchen carrying a lump of coal and pushes forward to see Mabel Hunter’s picture." }, { "name": "Unnamed old woman", "aliases": [ "the old woman at the fire" ], "description": "An elderly relative who makes tea and tells Stephen what a priest and doctor have said about a woman’s recent changes and odd sayings." }, { "name": "Ellen", "aliases": [], "description": "A woman who mistakenly thinks Stephen is Josephine and greets him when she appears in a doorway." }, { "name": "Josephine", "aliases": [], "description": "A person whom Ellen mistakes Stephen for; she is mentioned but does not appear directly." }, { "name": "Unnamed girl at the party", "aliases": [ "she" ], "description": "A girl at the children’s party in Harold’s Cross who attracts Stephen’s attention and accompanies him to the tram. Her identity is not given in this passage." }, { "name": "Unnamed tram conductor", "aliases": [ "the conductor" ], "description": "The conductor on the last tram Stephen rides after the party." }, { "name": "Unnamed tram driver", "aliases": [ "the driver" ], "description": "The driver of the last tram Stephen rides after the party." }, { "name": "Roderick Kickham", "aliases": [ "Rody Kickham" ], "description": "A Clongowes pupil whose name Stephen writes with classmates’ names while remembering an earlier attempt to write a poem." }, { "name": "John Lawton", "aliases": [ "Jack Lawton" ], "description": "A Clongowes pupil whose name Stephen writes with classmates’ names while remembering an earlier attempt to write a poem." }, { "name": "Anthony MacSwiney", "aliases": [], "description": "A classmate whose name Stephen writes while remembering an earlier attempt to write a poem." }, { "name": "Lord Byron", "aliases": [ "Byron" ], "description": "A poet Stephen admires and cites as the greatest poet; Heron and the other boys condemn him as immoral and heretical." }, { "name": "Wallis", "aliases": [], "description": "Heron’s acquaintance, a pale, well-dressed young man who smokes and listens as Heron teases Stephen." }, { "name": "Boland", "aliases": [], "description": "A classmate of Stephen and Heron who joins in taunting Stephen about Byron and helps restrain and beat him." }, { "name": "Captain Marryat", "aliases": [], "description": "A writer Nash names as the greatest writer; he is mentioned but does not appear directly." }, { "name": "Cardinal Newman", "aliases": [ "Newman" ], "description": "A writer Stephen regards as the best prose writer; Heron also acknowledges his reputation." }, { "name": "Lord Tennyson", "aliases": [ "Tennyson" ], "description": "A poet Heron calls the greatest; Stephen dismisses him as a rhymester." }, { "name": "Tyson", "aliases": [], "description": "A classmate who rides home from college on a pony and is the subject of a couplet attributed to Boland." }, { "name": "Unnamed boy who delivers Doyle’s message", "aliases": [ "the messenger" ], "description": "A boy who runs to tell Stephen that Doyle urgently wants him to dress for the play." }, { "name": "Doyle", "aliases": [], "description": "A person directing the school play who urgently summons Stephen to get dressed; he does not appear directly in this passage." }, { "name": "Unnamed plump young Jesuit", "aliases": [ "the plump freshfaced jesuit" ], "description": "A Jesuit who helps prepare the boys for the play and instructs Stephen to speak clearly." }, { "name": "Unnamed elderly man painting the boys", "aliases": [ "the elderly man" ], "description": "An older man in shabby blue clothes who paints the boys’ faces for the play." }, { "name": "Unnamed visiting young Jesuit", "aliases": [ "the young jesuit" ], "description": "A well-dressed young Jesuit visiting the college, whose manner and appearance make Stephen think of his father." }, { "name": "Unnamed stout old lady", "aliases": [ "Mrs Tallon" ], "description": "A woman who brings the child performer Bertie Tallon to the chapel before the play." }, { "name": "Bertie Tallon", "aliases": [ "little Bertie Tallon" ], "description": "A young boy dressed as a girl who is to perform the sunbonnet dance by himself." }, { "name": "Unnamed prefect of the chapel", "aliases": [ "the prefect" ], "description": "A Belvedere prefect who shepherds boys through the vestry before the play and speaks pleasantly to Mrs Tallon." }, { "name": "Unnamed plump bald sergeant major", "aliases": [ "the sergeant major" ], "description": "A sergeant major who tests the springboard for the gymnastic display." }, { "name": "Unnamed club-swinging performer", "aliases": [ "the lean young man" ], "description": "A lean young man scheduled to give a special display of intricate club swinging." }, { "name": "Unnamed stout old lady in chapel", "aliases": [ "the stout old lady" ], "description": "A woman who kneels in a dark corner of the chapel before being identified as Mrs Tallon." }, { "name": "Unnamed boy who knocks Stephen down", "aliases": [ "a boy in second of grammar", "a sprinter" ], "description": "A pupil who knocks Stephen down on the cinderpath, breaking his spectacles." }, { "name": "Mick Lacy", "aliases": [], "description": "A singer from Cork whom Stephen’s father remembers as especially skilled at singing an old song." }, { "name": "Unnamed garrulous porter", "aliases": [ "the porter" ], "description": "A porter at Queen’s College Cork who guides Stephen and his father through the grounds and shares local news." }, { "name": "Pottlebelly", "aliases": [], "description": "A person known to the Queen’s College porter, whose death the porter confirms to Stephen’s father." }, { "name": "Unnamed broadshouldered student", "aliases": [ "the student with a moustache" ], "description": "A student Stephen imagines carving the word “Fœtus” into a desk in the anatomy theatre at Queen’s College Cork." }, { "name": "Harry Peard", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Stephen’s father’s former companions in Cork, mentioned as part of a group who used to visit the Groceries." }, { "name": "Jack Mountain", "aliases": [ "little Jack Mountain" ], "description": "One of Stephen’s father’s former companions in Cork, mentioned as part of a group who used to visit the Groceries." }, { "name": "Bob Dyas", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Stephen’s father’s former companions in Cork, mentioned as part of a group who used to visit the Groceries." }, { "name": "Maurice Moriarty", "aliases": [ "the Frenchman" ], "description": "One of Stephen’s father’s former companions in Cork, mentioned as part of a group who used to visit the Groceries." }, { "name": "Tom O’Grady", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Stephen’s father’s former companions in Cork, mentioned as part of a group who used to visit the Groceries." }, { "name": "Joey Corbet", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Stephen’s father’s former companions in Cork, mentioned as part of a group who used to visit the Groceries." }, { "name": "Johnny Keevers", "aliases": [ "poor little goodhearted Johnny Keevers of the Tantiles" ], "description": "A former companion of Stephen’s father in Cork, remembered as kind-hearted." }, { "name": "Unnamed family portraits", "aliases": [ "the family portraits" ], "description": "Portraits of Stephen’s family that lean against the wall in the partly emptied Dublin house." }, { "name": "Unnamed Corkonian sellers, barmen, barmaids, and beggars", "aliases": [ "the sellers in the market", "the barmen and barmaids", "the beggars" ], "description": "People Stephen’s father speaks to while following him through Cork after the property sale; they are not individually identified." }, { "name": "Betty Byrne", "aliases": [], "description": "A woman who lives along the road in Stephen’s opening childhood story and sells lemon platt." }, { "name": "Dante", "aliases": [ "Mrs Riordan" ], "description": "A learned, devout woman close to Stephen’s family. She supports the Irish Catholic clergy and opposes Parnell; she disapproves of Stephen playing with Eileen because Eileen is Protestant." }, { "name": "Michael Davitt", "aliases": [], "description": "A political figure whose name is associated with the maroon-backed brush in Dante’s home." }, { "name": "Charles Stewart Parnell", "aliases": [ "Parnell", "the chief", "my dead king" ], "description": "Irish political leader supported by Stephen’s father and Mr Casey. Dante condemns him, while Mr Casey grieves that the clergy helped break his political career." }, { "name": "Mr Vance", "aliases": [ "Eileen’s father" ], "description": "Eileen’s father, who lives with his family at number seven. He is mentioned but does not appear directly." }, { "name": "Mrs Vance", "aliases": [ "Eileen’s mother" ], "description": "Eileen’s mother, who lives with her family at number seven. She is mentioned but does not appear directly." }, { "name": "Cantwell", "aliases": [], "description": "A fellow pupil mentioned in a playground exchange about fighting." }, { "name": "Cardinal Wolsey", "aliases": [ "Wolsey" ], "description": "A historical figure recalled in a verse Stephen learned: he died at Leicester Abbey and was buried by its abbots." }, { "name": "Wells", "aliases": [], "description": "A fellow pupil who shoves Stephen into a ditch and later apologizes. He also repeats rumors about boys who ran away from the college." }, { "name": "Brigid", "aliases": [], "description": "A servant in Stephen’s family who brings in tea and taught him a song about burial." }, { "name": "Simon Moonan", "aliases": [], "description": "A fellow pupil who serves a prefect and is rumored to have been caught in misconduct with Tusker Boyle; he faces punishment." }, { "name": "McGlade", "aliases": [ "the prefect" ], "description": "A Clongowes prefect who supervises the boys and is served by Simon Moonan." }, { "name": "Little", "aliases": [], "description": "A pupil whose death is recalled by Stephen as he imagines his own funeral." }, { "name": "Athy", "aliases": [], "description": "A fellow pupil in the infirmary, whose father keeps racehorses. He tells Stephen riddles and shares rumors about the boys who ran away." }, { "name": "Brother Michael", "aliases": [], "description": "A Clongowes brother who tends to Stephen in the infirmary and brings him beef tea." }, { "name": "Unnamed infirmary pupil", "aliases": [ "the fellow out of the third of grammar" ], "description": "A pupil sharing the infirmary with Stephen; he calls himself Athy and asks Brother Michael for toast." }, { "name": "Saurin", "aliases": [], "description": "A fellow pupil whose father is said to be a magistrate." }, { "name": "Mr Barrett", "aliases": [ "old Barrett" ], "description": "A Clongowes master who uses a pandybat and is said to have devised a way to fold punishment notes." }, { "name": "Mr Gleeson", "aliases": [], "description": "A Clongowes master expected to flog Corrigan; Stephen notices his clean, pale hands." }, { "name": "Tusker Boyle", "aliases": [ "Lady Boyle" ], "description": "A fellow pupil also known as Lady Boyle because he is particular about his nails. Athy says he was caught with Simon Moonan and faces punishment." }, { "name": "Mr Harford", "aliases": [], "description": "A writing teacher at Clongowes who helps pupils with their penmanship and treats them kindly." }, { "name": "Dominic Kelly", "aliases": [], "description": "A pupil who sings in the choir during a religious procession." }, { "name": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "aliases": [ "Napoleon" ], "description": "A historical figure in a story Stephen has heard, who is said to have named his first communion day as the happiest day of his life." }, { "name": "Tom Furlong", "aliases": [], "description": "A fellow pupil whose voice answers the prefect of studies when asked when Father Dolan will return." }, { "name": "Unnamed Clongowes butler", "aliases": [ "the butler" ], "description": "A butler at the college who shows Stephen marks left by soldiers’ bullets and gives him shortbread." }, { "name": "Unnamed scullion", "aliases": [ "the scullion" ], "description": "A Clongowes kitchen worker who pours tea for the boys." }, { "name": "Unnamed fellow who saw the rat", "aliases": [ "a fellow" ], "description": "A pupil whose report of a rat jumping into the ditch comes to Stephen’s mind." }, { "name": "Unnamed boy who held the censer", "aliases": [ "the boy that held the censer" ], "description": "A pupil who swings the censer during a religious procession." }, { "name": "Unnamed boy in second of grammar", "aliases": [ "a sprinter" ], "description": "A pupil who knocks Stephen down on the cinderpath, breaking his spectacles." }, { "name": "Unnamed prefect who speaks to Wells", "aliases": [ "the prefect" ], "description": "A Clongowes prefect whom Simon Moonan serves by tying his false sleeves behind his back." }, { "name": "Unnamed minister", "aliases": [ "the minister" ], "description": "A minister who, with Mr Gleeson, is said to have caught the runaway pupils." }, { "name": "Kickham’s brother", "aliases": [], "description": "A brother of Rody Kickham, accused in a rumor of taking money from the rector’s room." }, { "name": "Mr Casey", "aliases": [ "John" ], "description": "A close family friend and Irish nationalist who supports Parnell and argues against Dante about the clergy’s political role. He has been imprisoned for his political activity." }, { "name": "Christopher", "aliases": [ "Christy" ], "description": "A man mocked by Mr Casey and Mr Dedalus for supposedly manufacturing champagne; he is mentioned but does not appear directly." }, { "name": "Queen Victoria", "aliases": [], "description": "A monarch mentioned in Mr Casey’s explanation of how he cramped three fingers making a birthday present for her." }, { "name": "Sergeant O’Neill", "aliases": [], "description": "A police sergeant who once came to the Dedalus home and spoke quietly with Stephen’s father about Mr Casey." }, { "name": "Unnamed hotel keeper", "aliases": [ "the hotel keeper" ], "description": "A hotel keeper whose manner of speaking Mr Dedalus imitates." }, { "name": "Unnamed railway porter", "aliases": [ "the railway porter" ], "description": "A railway porter whose language Mr Dedalus briefly claims to have been discussing." }, { "name": "Bishop Lanigan", "aliases": [], "description": "A bishop mentioned by Mr Casey as having presented an address of loyalty to the Marquess Cornwallis during the time of the Union." }, { "name": "Marquess Cornwallis", "aliases": [], "description": "A British nobleman who received a loyal address from Bishop Lanigan, according to Mr Casey." }, { "name": "Terence Bellew MacManus", "aliases": [], "description": "An Irish nationalist whose remains, Mr Casey says, were dishonored by the clergy." }, { "name": "Paul Cullen", "aliases": [ "little old Paul Cullen" ], "description": "A Catholic churchman whom Mr Dedalus derides during the argument about the clergy." }, { "name": "Unnamed old man called Billy with the lip", "aliases": [ "Billy with the lip" ], "description": "A church figure mocked by Mr Dedalus; he is mentioned but does not appear directly." }, { "name": "Unnamed churchman in Armagh", "aliases": [ "the tub of guts up in Armagh" ], "description": "A church figure whom Mr Dedalus insults during the Christmas dinner argument." }, { "name": "Unnamed old man in the portrait", "aliases": [ "his grandfather" ], "description": "Stephen’s grandfather, portrayed on the wall; Mr Dedalus says he was condemned to death as a Whiteboy and refused to host clergy." }, { "name": "Unnamed man at Dunn’s", "aliases": [ "the man" ], "description": "A seller at Dunn’s who recommends a turkey to Mr Dedalus." }, { "name": "Unnamed gentleman at the band", "aliases": [], "description": "A man whom Dante once struck with her umbrella for removing his hat during God Save the Queen." } ], "analysis": { "sourceSha256": "242a8f892db42b3b42f96cbb1e2ef6792f1345d9422d87783478c25d07ded35e", "generatedAt": "2026-10-26T17:24:31.865279+00:00", "partsProcessed": 7, "extractionWarnings": [], "promptSha256": "9385e4a21325f0621e5589099a8ad97a61d002a9f4df2818821dc1c353ad5c6d", "model": "gpt-6-luna", "pipelineVersion": 1 } }