Gerty MacDowell as Nausicaa in the Eponymous Episode of “Ulysses” by James Joyce

Abstract

This paper’s study is about the novel of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” on the subject topic of Gerty MacDowell as Nausicaa in the Eponymous episode. Its aim is basically dealing with the comparison of Joyce’s Gerty MacDowell and Homer’s Nausicaa emphasizing the importance of their interactions with Bloom and Odysseus and a careful examination of the text and comparison with Joyce’s mai nsource, The Odyssey. This study will show the comparison of Nausicaa and Gerty which proves to be unbelievably fundamental to Ulysses and significant to the “Nausicaa” episode. Additionally, Gerty, like Homer’s Nausicaa, is the representation of a female character of the modern period.