... it is she is gazing upon, and at the moment of the story, it is Chandler. Ironic that chandler perceives more from his wife through the distance of a photograph, a dim analysis of a living creature and its entire existence by the pixel fabrications of a picture. This is symbolic of Chandlers detachment from an outside, inspirational world, that holds lines of poetry by ... point, is quite stale itself. Joyce cuts to Chandler already having arrived at his home after his disappointing meeting with Gallaher, cradling his child in his arms. Joyce makes a painful literary juxtaposition, by l...

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