![]() ![]() The chapter is almost perfectly balanced: the meanderings of Father Conmee, S. Coming as it does after the first nine sections of Ulysses (traditionally accepted to be the first "half" of the novel), "The Wandering Rocks" is a kind of interlude - much like the comic entrance of Buck Mulligan during Stephen Dedalus's discussion of Shakespeare in "Scylla and Charybdis" - before Joyce begins the second "half' of the novel. The chapter consists of 19 short episodes which mirror the overall 18-part structure of Ulysses (early critics usually described "The Wandering Rocks" as consisting of 18 parts and a final coda, the description of the viceregal cavalcade). ![]() It describes the wanderings of several characters from Ulysses around the streets of Dublin, and thus it forms a mini-odyssey, a microcosm of Joyce's novel. ![]()
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