What do most critics say that Issy represents to her brothers and father ?
Correct answer: A. she is a source of secret, repressed desire
- A. she is a source of secret, repressed desire
- B. she represents the functional family structure
- C. she is an example of piety
- D. she dissolves the tension of the Oedipal references
Explanation
Issy, the daughter and sister figure in Finnegans Wake, is read psychoanalytically as an object of concealed or repressed sexual desire for the male members of her family. The other choices do not account for the novel's recurring Oedipal and sexual imagery.
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