Ulysses characters
Leopold Bloom is one of three main characters of the text. The wanderings of the new Odyssey, Leopold Bloom, a small advertising agent of thirty-eight years, Jewish by nationality, begin at the same time as the Steven-Telemah's wanderings-at eight in the morning on June 16...
Gerty MacDowell is a woman in her early twenties with a limp, who lets Leopold Bloom see her undergarments on Sandymount Strand. She appears again in the "Nighttown" sequence as a lady of the night. She is a woman, dominating in a relationship, who kills...
Mina Purefoy is the minor character of the novel. Mina Purefoy, the fertile mother, is dubbed “goddess of unreason.” According to Gilbert's annotations, in real life, Mina Purefoy was married to a Dublin obstetrician who in 1904 was former master of...
D. B. Murphy is a minor character of the novel. He is a sailor of Carrigaloe. Fort Camden and Fort Carlisle, that's where he hails from. He belongs to that place and his little woman's down there. She's waiting for him, for England, home, and beauty. She's his own true...
A compassionate and supportive rector of Clongowes Wood College, the school run by the Jesuit monks, where Stephen has lost most of his childhood illusions. If Stephen needed advice or help, Father Conmee would comfort him, especially after the pandying incident. He also helped Stephen to enroll...
Simon Dedalus is the father of Stephen Dedalus, the young protagonist in both, and his character is largely based on Joyce's own father, John Stanislaus Joyce. Simon is a passionate Irish nationalist and supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell, facilitating his financial...
Buck Mulligan is the central character of the novel. He is the antagonist of Stephen Daedalus. They live together in Martelle's tower. Buck Mulligan plays out of the best friend of Daedalus, his patron, but he is jealous at the same time. There is an intellectual rivalry between them...
Garrett Deasy is the minor character of the novel. Garrett Deasy is the headmaster in the school where Stephen Dedalus teaches and is pompous and opinionated. He, as a person who creates a cohesive community, knows that his own strategy cannot be realized in life on his own...
Milly Bloom is the daughter of Leopold Bloom, the main character of the novel "Ulysses," a duplicate and a Jewish by nationality. The novel tells of a day June 16, 1904 when Leo Bloom conducts in the publishing house, on the streets and in the cafe of Dublin, at the...
Molly Bloom is one of three main characters in the novel. Not the only one prototype of Bloom's wife is Norah, who is the wife of Joyce. At the same time, in order to create the image of the new Penelope, Joyce emphasizes the feminine origin in the image, substantially modifies both...
Stephen Daedalus is one of the three Dubliners, described in the novel (Stephen Dedal, Leopold Bloom and his wife, Marion Bloom). The fundamental shape-forming feature of the novel is the connection with Homer's “Odyssey,” which is expressed in numerous and transparent...
The novel "Ulysses," as well as the character of Blazes Boylan is unique. Joyce went against the tradition that existed for centuries and made the subject of the picture in the novel not a special day in the life of heroes, but simply a day, during which almost...
Patrick “Paddy” Dignam is considered as Joyce's analog of Elpenor, who died in similar circumstances and who greeted his friend Odysseus. He dies in a drunken stupor. Each episode is represented by a bodily organ which gives life to the city. Each episode also has an...