nspired strong feelings in all, whether they be amusement, chagrin, ire or revulsion. In the appreciation of art, literature and film, man brings his own unique human experience. The street-smart protagonists of Spike Lee films might be regarded as heroes to some and anti-heroes to others. Leopold Bloom was greeted with a similar ambivalence in the 1920s. After Ulysses, the heroic ideal was never quite the same. Of Leopold Bloom, it could be said, "The life of this insignificant man did have significance; it had one meaning that, in the long run counts in each person's life... Who can doubt that this man is a good patron for us? This man of humble, everyday routine, this man of silent performance of duty, of honest righteousness and of manly piety, this man who was charged with protecting the grace of God in its embodied life?" (Baumann 22) ...
