Summary This episode begins at about 10:00 p.m. and ends approximately an hour later. Its setting is the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, and one of the hospital’s superintendents is Dr. Andrew J. Horne, whose name is subjected to much punning by Stephen Dedalus and his friends. The physical action […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 14 – The Oxen of the Sun

Summary This episode takes place at around 8:00 p.m. on Sandymount Strand, the same shore where Stephen had earlier that morning contemplated the meaning of life’s changes in “Proteus.” Bloom has just come from visiting the Dignam family (in Sandymount), and “Nausicaa” provides him with a “relief” from the unpleasantness […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 13 – Nausicaa

Summary This chapter begins just before 5:00 p.m. and takes place in Barney Kiernan’s pub, to which Bloom has come to meet with Martin Cunningham so that the two men can proceed on to Paddy Dignam’s residence in Sandymount in order to discuss the deceased man’s life insurance policy with […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 12 – The Cyclops

Summary This episode begins just after the 3:30 p.m. opening of the bar at the Ormond Hotel and ends at about 4:30 p.m., with the exit of Bloom and the reappearance of the blind stripling, the piano tuner, announced by the tapping sounds of his cane, who has come to […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 11 – The Sirens

Summary This episode begins at 2:55 p.m. and ends at 4:00 p.m. It describes the wanderings of several characters from Ulysses around the streets of Dublin, and thus it forms a mini-odyssey, a microcosm of Joyce’s novel. The chapter consists of 19 short episodes which mirror the overall 18-part structure […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 10 – The Wandering Rocks

Summary This episode takes place in Dublin’s National Library from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. In this intricate chapter, Stephen further explicates his theory about Shakespeare and Hamlet that Mulligan asked him to explain to Haines in “Telemachus.” Stephen’s brilliant but difficult exposition is made even more perplexing by the […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 9 – Scylla and Charybdis

Summary This chapter, which begins at about 1:00 p.m. and lasts for approximately an hour, traces Bloom’s movements through the center of Dublin. It starts when he observes a Christian Brother buying sweets (presumably for some of his students) and ends when Bloom, evading the approaching Boylan, turns into the […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 8 – The Lestrygonians

Summary The episode begins at noon in the newspaper offices of the Weekly Freeman and National Press and the Freeman’s Journal and National Press. The sprawling building also houses the Evening Telegraph, all of the above papers being under common ownership. After the burial of Dignam, the funeral coaches have […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 7 – Aeolus

Summary This episode begins at about 11:00 a.m. outside the house of the deceased Paddy Dignam in Sandymount. Bloom is entering the carriage, which will follow behind Dignam’s hearse, together with Martin Cunningham, Mr. Power, and Simon Dedalus (who appears here in person for the first time in the novel). […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 6 – Hades

Summary This chapter begins at about 10:00 a.m. Bloom has walked approximately a mile from 7 Eccles Street to get to the Westland Row Postal Annex, where he will pick up his letter from Martha Clifford. A careful study of a Dublin street map reveals that Bloom has actually gone […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 5 – The Lotus-Eaters