Timeline for What do "plump" and "stately" mean in this sentence from James Joyce's Ulysses?
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| Jan 20, 2020 at 20:43 | comment | added | user1383058 | @Barmar -- right, 'well-fed' might be a nice way to put it, as compared with Stephen Dedalus, who is quite poor and perhaps quite hungry (similar to Joyce while in Paris, but this would get into quite a long tangent...). But anyways, yes "plump/fat" would imply that person can afford to be fat and is certainly not poor. | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 19:34 | comment | added | Barmar | Plump could also imply rich -- rich men are often portrayed as overweight in period pieces because they could afford more and richer foods. | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 7:17 | comment | added | BoldBen | @kazhvan I would say that neither word can be an adverb, both are adjectives. It would be ungrammatical to say "He sits plump" or "She walks stately" (although both sentences might occur in non-standard dialect speech). In this case Joyce is using both words to describe Mulligan. 'Plump' describes him physically and 'stately' describes his style of walking and his presentation but both relate to him. The only verb in the same clause as 'plump' and 'stately' is 'came' and neither modifier affects that verb. | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 3:59 | comment | added | kazhvan | I have already read the answers there. They are very confusing | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 3:52 | comment | added | user1383058 | @kazhvan here are some other answers, a few of them good: quora.com/…. | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 3:44 | comment | added | kazhvan | I know, what they mean . describe thez here the body of the character or his stance ? | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 3:40 | history | answered | user1383058 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |