Bloom and Milly

Bloom evaluates the attractiveness of his daughter, and is supportive and appreciative of her emerging sexuality. Some fathers stifle the sexuality of their daughters by teasing them or making hostile remarks; this creates nervousness in the daughter, a sort of fear of sexuality. I think that the same is true for sons with dominant mothers. Milly lives with no such restraints, and this allows for her sexual freedom-- I suspect that we will see the manifestation of this later in the novel.

(The novel is rife with subtext in the relationships between the characters, and I notice parallels between them and the people I know... It's really a novel of complex characterizations that provoke a lot of analysis-- It's meditative rather than stylized; I feel like a lot of thought has been given to the reasons for each character's behavior.)