I noticed interaction between native and foreign most prominently in the exchange\u00a0between the milk woman and other characters. When the milkwoman\u00a0arrives, she is first described in unspecific terms, as an “entering form”. Yet, through Stephen’s description, she becomes characterized as a symbol of Irish identity. Later, however, when Haines speaks to her in Irish, she is unable to recognize the language and mistakes it for French. That an English man would know Irish and a native Irish woman does not, undermines Stephen’s earlier romanticization of her and grounds him back in reality where this complicated dynamic of native and foreign elements is occurring. Not only has the growing anglicization of Ireland by the British distanced Irish natives from their heritage, but that heritage has now come under the ownership and control\u00a0of British influence. Here Joyce appears to assert that the Irish Literary Revival must take a balanced approached, one which both seeks to reattach the Irish people with their roots but also recognizes that the identity that they seek to reclaim does no longer exist in the form that it appears in through excessive romanticization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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