An in-progress entry in the Episode 6 · Hades thread on Swerve of Shore, by Brandon Nicklaus.
Jack Power: Mr. Power is first seen in “Grace” in Dubliners. It is let known that he doesn’t “relish the use of his Christian name.” Mr. Power ran into drunken Tom Kernan after he fell down the stairs and got him home. He initiates the plot to help Kernan find god and get sober. Mr. Power is a younger man, employed in the Royal Irish Constabulary office in Dublin castle. He was rising in the social class as Kernan was falling.
Simon Dedalus: Is first seen in The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He is Stephens father. He is a strong Irish nationalist in Portrait, but we start to see his downfall in Ulysses. His son has to borrow shoes and is homeless. In Aeolus we see him with a silk hat and a bushy mustache.
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