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A: The opening chapter begins with Stephen Daedalus’ early childhood. The plot progresses, obscured by the Stephen’s not fully formed perception of his world. He describes his environment and the people in it with touches of baby talk, colloquialisms and shadowy, visceral imagery. His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face. He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt (4). The story seems to jump a few years abruptly and Stephen is suddenly at his first days at Clonglowes boarding school. The language changes again to correlate with his change in age. It is at this time Stephen’s sensitivity is more clearly developed. Often, Stephen drifts from reality and the fantasies of being at home with his family aw