The Suspended Sentence

An Exploration of Finnegans Wake

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  • Tour Finnegans Wake
    • Book I
    • Book II
    • Books III and IV
    • Characters
      • ALP
      • HCE
      • Issy (Iseult)
      • Shaun the Postman
      • Shem the Penman
      • The Cad
      • The Four Old Men
      • The Prankquean
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Book II

Chapter 1

An overview of II.1

226: “She is fading out like Journee’s clothes”

241: “heather cliff emurgency” (Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights)

244-46: The zoo

251: Shem as tutor

Chapter 2

An overview of II.2 (with a focus on the brother battle)

263: HCE’s tavern as microcosm of the world (“solarsystemised”)

295: “Sundaclouths” (Santa Claus)

298: The math problem; further reflections on the math problem

293: The diagram and William Blake

303-306: The brother battle (Shaun punches Shem; Shem thanks Shaun)

305: The “guilt of the gap”

308: The ten syllables; the nightletter

Chapter 3

An overview of II.3 (with a focus on the brothers’ reconciliation)

314: Grist for the mill

338-54 (with focus on 345): The brothers’ reconciliation

341-42: The horse race

355: The end of the radio play

356: The “(suppressed) book”: “Who straps it scraps it”

373: “Dummy up, distillery!”

Chapter 4

The Four Old Men (overview)

394-95: “reunited selfdom”

396: The “goal of her gullet”

  • A Portrait of the Artist
  • Alcohol
  • Close Reading
  • Clothing
  • Dubliners
  • Film
  • Forgiveness
  • Holidays
  • Introduction
  • Mystical Blathering
  • Overview
  • Shameless Self-Promotion
  • Silliness
  • The Cad
  • The Prankquean
  • Ulysses
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