Ulysses gives a striking picture of a single day’s life microscopically revealed of two middle class Irish men: Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, both residents in Dublin. Technically the work is marked in part by eccentricities in form such as the economy of the punctuation, for instance, a frankness of language and a realism that spares the reader neither the sordid, nor the obscene. As an artist, Joyce shows skepticism towards any single sent …showed first 75 words of 1449 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1449 total…and at finding a new religion in his art. The awareness of a superior reality and of a superior sense of significance that we can find in Ulysses’ epiphanies has no correspondent in the Portrait’s similar experiences. Epiphanies in Ulysses can be said to be integrated and centered on a sense of communion with the world. Those of the portrait are disintegrating with no allusion at a superior transcendent rule, except that of art.