ALP in "Anna Livia Plurabelle" of Finnegans Wake is the wife figure and also the river Liffey, which runs through the center of Dublin in Ireland. Two washerwomen wash clothes on the opposite sides of the Liffey and gossip about her. As they describe her, they are also describing the river. The life-giving stream of water in the river is the essence of life itself. The babbling, bubbling, and gossipy sound/speech of the washerwomen is the one of the flowing water itself in the river Liffey. Water and watery words in relation of woman are, therefore, dominant, prevailing, and recurrent in "Anna Livia Plurabelle" and become the major metaphor in the chapter. The watery words have relation to the women`s writing technique, which is very diffusive, changeable, and fluid, experimented in Joyce`s other works. The new writing technique reveals the hidden, repressed, and suppressed desires of all the humankind as well as those of women. It upturns what appear to be the normal patterns of English in both linguistic and textual structure and, as a result, created for the new generation the new writing possibility. |