The most significant of Stephen Dedalus’s many sisters, Dilly appears in two important scenes. In the first, she coaxes money out of her drunk father Simon, which points to the Dedalus family’s struggle to hold together after May Dedalus’s death. In the second of these scenes, Dilly runs into Stephen at a Dublin bookstall. She is carrying a French book she recently bought, and this frightens Stephen, who fears that she will become a starving artist, just like him.
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Dilly Dedalus Character Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the character Dilly Dedalus appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 10: Wandering Rocks
...pea soup, which is a gift from Sister Mary Patrick, and explains that their sister Dilly went to see their father. Boody replies, “our father who art not in heaven.” Meanwhile,...
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In the episode’s eleventh short fragment, Simon Dedalus meets his daughter Dilly outside the Dillon auction house and orders her to fix her poor posture. Dilly asks...
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...a well-worn volume with instructions on “How to win a woman’s love.” Suddenly, Stephen’s sister Dilly appears with an introductory French book that she’s bought for a penny. Stephen panics, feeling...
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...Dedalus, Reverend Hugh C. Love, Lenehan and M’Coy, Buck Mulligan and Haines, John Howard Parnell, Dilly Dedalus, John Henry Menton, Denis J. Maginni, Blazes Boylan, Cashel Boyle O’Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell,...
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