Do you think the Molly's monologue in Ulysses is a trustful depiction of the femenine mind?
>>8373828
No, it was written by a man.
It was a depiction of a man trying to think like a female.
Anyway, insight into one mind is not representative of an entire gender.
Yes. Women can't express themselves at all, and there's no doubt Joyce did a better job than any woman could at capturing their process of thought.
>>8373833
I think your last sentence is way more important than the first two. To the point where the first two are made redundant by the last.
Not particularly, although I would also say Bloom/ Stephen isn't an accurate depiction of "the masculine mind". It seems to me that the point of the chapter was more about a depiction of The Other than of an accurate depiction of "the mysterious mind of women". Molly is, of course, a women and so that's a factor but I thought more significant was that she is not a man. In fact what she is not is most important: she is not a man ( like Stephen and Bloom), not irish(like Stephen and Bloom), not neurotic ( like Stephen and Bloom), not academic, etc. The chapter was to me a kind of death knell for the novel; for however well it captured the inner mind of a strange man in Dublin the wonder and immensity if human experience is so much more vast and indescribable.