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| Bloom, Leopold: If Ulysses, the 1922 novel by James Joyce, hangs upon the framework of Homer's Odyssey , then Leopold Bloom represents the wandering Odysseus; Molly Bloom, the not-so-patient Penelope; and Stephen Dedalus, Telemachus, searching for his father. Stephen ultimately finds a father in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew who is portrayed as an everyman wandering through all the venues of Dublin, from business offices to bars to brothels to funeral parlours to his own bedroom, on a single day : June 16, 1904. He is the ultimate antihero. |
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| Bloom,Molly: The epitome of female sensuality, she is married to Leopold Bloom, the main character in "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Her lengthy, unpunctuated, erotic stream of consciousness as she lies in bed at the end of the day---the day on which the entire action of the novel takes place, June 16,1904---waiting to receive her husband from whom she has been estranged,closes the novel and is undoubtedly the most famous interior monologue of literature. Her last word is "yes", an affirmation of love and life and experience. Molly, in the Homeric scheme of the novel, represents Penelope, but a lusty one. Molly was modeled on Joyce's wife, Nora Barnacle. |
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| Bloomsday: June16, 1904, the day on which all the events of James Joyce's "Ulysses" (1922) takes place. Joyce is said to have picked this date for his novel to commemorate the anniversary of his first date with Nora Barnacle, his wife. Every June 16 people who have a passion for Ulysses celebrate "Bloomsday" by following the route taken by Leopold Bloom through Dublin (if they are in Dublin) or by a nonstop, oral reading of the entire novel. |
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