The author demonstrates, through a rhetorical reading, and using a gyre as a metaphor, how James Joyce's corpus forms a whole, beginning with Stephen Hero and culminating in the ultimate inclusive text Finnegans Wake. She illustrates how Joyce utilizes provocations, a term coined by Joyce scholar Fritz Senn for Joyce's technique of repeating words and phrases, with ever expanded wording and meaning, at a global level for his works so that each text incorporates previous texts, expanding in a manner similar to a gyre. Further, she argues that Joyce not only uses this technique deliberately but also gives the "key" to recognizing it.