This study investigates what kind of unique styles are employed in the "Aeolus"(7) episode and "Eumaeus"(16) episode of Ulysses, by applying the narrative theories of Booth, Genette, Cohn, and Stanzel. In discussing how each epidode is written with totally different narrative style, the issue of the representation of reality is examined from a Modernist aesthetic point of view. In the "Aeolus" episode, presence of narrator is vividly revealed by inserting 63 headings between the interwoven pattern of initial style. Through this visual disturbance, the narrator destroys the illusion of unmediated reality, and parodies the newspaper headings by interfering or deferring readers from grasping the main points. In this regard, the narrator is different from the eighteenth and nineteenth century narrators who are the center of the meaning. The narrator of "Eumaeus" episode wears another peculiar mask of style. Narrator`s sentences are deliberately twisted, incorrect, lengthy, worn-out, trite, stile, wandering, and lifeless. They are full of circumlocution, euphemisms, confused metaphors, foreign languages, special terms, colloquialism, and coarse expression. The structures frequently change midway in the sentence and are interrupted by parentheses. There is no more interior monologue and even Bloom`s inner world is revealed through the psycho-narration or third person monologue mediated by the narrator. Some critics assert that this narrative technique is to reflect the main characters` spiritual and physical fatigue. However, the main purpose of this style is to emphasize the difficulty of communication and the inability to grasp the chameleon-like reality. Joyce chooses his special narrative strategy with regard to the social and historical context of the skepticism, relativity, and uncertainty of the Modernist world. He employs the complex patterns of narrative technique in eighteen different episodes of Ulysses so that the unique reality of "Bloodsday" are seen over and over again. Joyce reveals that best possible depiction of changing reality can be captured as close as possible through illuminating identical incidents from many conflicting points of view and different narrative styles. In this kind of novel, where there is no one absolutely hegemonic or authoritative way to describe reality, the reader must create and recreate the text`s meaning from what is presented through the different points of vie and styles. |