amsolookly kersse: Clothing in Finnegans Wake uses rhetorical theory specifically the relationship between the author audience and text as a paradigm for understanding clothing as a visual form of rhetoric. This in-depth study of clothing provides readers with a new way of understanding Joyce's most complex text. Whereas critics often see the characters as conflated an examination of what each character wears reveals distinct personalities. Furthermore clothing is a subject that allows for discussion of class gender politics age ethics identity art and even religion in conjunction with each of these characters.