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Stephen Dedalus’s boss at the school where he teaches, Deasy is an impassioned defender of the British Empire. He also gives Stephen the letter on foot and mouth disease that eventually gets published in the day’s papers. Because he is pretentious, out-of-touch, and interested in publishing a letter with no literary value, he serves as a character foil to Stephen’s literary, professional, and political ambitions.
Garrett Deasy Quotes in Ulysses
The Ulysses quotes below are all either spoken by Garrett Deasy or refer to Garrett Deasy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Episode 2: Nestor Quotes
—History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
From the playfield the boys raised a shout. A whirring whistle: goal. What if that nightmare gave you a back kick?
—The ways of the Creator are not our ways, Mr Deasy said. All human history moves towards one great goal, the manifestation of God.
Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying:
—That is God.
Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee!
—What? Mr Deasy asked.
—A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
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Garrett Deasy Character Timeline in Ulysses
The timeline below shows where the character Garrett Deasy appears in Ulysses. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Episode 2: Nestor
Mr. Deasy, the schoolmaster, sorts out an argument about the hockey teams and then meets Stephen in...
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Mr. Deasy looks at a portrait of King Edward VII hanging above the mantlepiece, then starts talking...
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Mr. Deasy asks Stephen to bring a letter to his “literary friends” and sits down to finish...
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Mr. Deasy comes over with his letter, which is about how his cousin has learned to treat...
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Stephen tells Deasy that he’s “trying to awake” from the nightmare of history, but Deasy argues that human...
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Stephen promises to try to publish Deasy’s letter, and he leaves and goes out the school gate. But Deasy runs after him:...
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Episode 3: Proteus
...blows and the waves crash onto the shore. Stephen remembers that he must deliver Mr. Deasy’s letter and meet Buck Mulligan at the pub at 12:30. He ponders moving in with...
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...who starts composing poetry about them in his head. He rips a scrap off Mr. Deasy’s letter and starts writing, bent over and casting a shadow on the rocks. He wonders...
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Episode 7: Aeolus
Mr. O’Madden Burke and Stephen Dedalus enter the office. Stephen presents Crawford with Mr. Deasy’s letter, which is missing the corner Stephen tore off to write poetry. Crawford remembers how...
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Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis
...to their conversation about the Dublin literary scene. Stephen politely asks Russell to pass on Deasy’s letter about foot and mouth disease, and Russell goes out.
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Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun
Lenehan mentions Mr. Deasy’s letter in the paper on foot and mouth disease. In a new voice that recalls...
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Episode 15: Circe
...a dark horse without a jockey pulls out way in front. Meanwhile, the ridiculously-dressed Mr. Deasy rides Cock of the North, the horse that was supposed to be the favorite.
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Episode 16: Eumaeus
...who is broke and unemployed. Stephen suggests that Corley take over his job at Mr. Deasy’s school, but Corley explains that he was a terrible student. Stephen admits that he doesn’t...
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...was misspelled “Boom,” while “Stephen Dedalus B.A.” was erroneously listed as present. Stephen asks if Deasy’s letter is in the paper, but he turns it into an elaborate Biblical joke. Bloom...
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