why is ulysses always called the story of an everyman? more specifically, why is leopold bloom considered an everyman when he is, in every way possible, an outsider
he is an over-educated bored quasi-intellectual non-drinker jew cuckold public masturbator in catholic ireland who everybody pokes fun at behind his back.
he's the punching bag of dublin. in what way is that the 'everyman' ?
>>7983641
>over-educated bored quasi-intellectual non-drinker jew cuckold public masturbator in catholic ireland who everybody pokes fun at behind his back.
6/9 of those things describe most people
>>7983641
what qualities should an every man embody then
bloom is hardly overeducated. he is more of a wonderer and a day-dreamer. he has a foggy notion of the orient that his mind wonders too, he doesn't quite understand parallax and doesn't really care to investigate it further, he makes some hazy calculations about various business enterprises, running shops, selling alcohol, keeping bees, ponders the rites of catholicism without really knowing much about them. he is very much middle brow, and very much a middle-class schemer who can't quite break into the more affluent realms of merchantdom.
stephen ambling along the shore making odd jokes mixing shakespear and german philosophy and aristotle while being a broke under-employed heap of misery is over educated
>>7983743
What do you mean by parallax?
>>7983808
read the lunch chapter
