Ad canvasser. Hungarian-Jewish-Irish. Born 1866. Husband of Molly. Father to Milly (15) and Rudy (died at 11 days). Our Odysseus, wandering Dublin, thinking of kidneys and love and death.
Marion (Molly) Tweedy Bloom. Concert soprano. Gibraltar-born. Her monologue ends the book and begins eternity. "Yes" is her word.
The artist as a young man. Telemachus seeking a father. Mourning his mother. Teaching school. Theorizing Shakespeare. "History is a nightmare."
Malachi (Buck) Mulligan. Medical student. Usurper. Mocker. "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead."
Stephen's father. Widower. Drinker. Singer. Once had a fine tenor voice. "A praiser of his own past."
Concert promoter. Molly's tour manager and afternoon visitor. Jingle jangle. His letter arrives. At 4 o'clock he'll come.
Millicent Bloom, 15. Works in a photo shop in Mullingar. Her letter arrives with the morning post. Growing up, away.
Leopold and Molly's son. Died eleven days after birth, eleven years ago. He appears, transformed, at the end of Circe.
Patrick Dignam. Dead. His funeral is the occasion for "Hades." His ghost haunts the Cyclops episode.
Bloom's epistolary romance. "Dear Henry." They've never met. She writes of flowers and words typed wrong.
Nationalist. Anti-Semite. One-eyed giant in Barney Kiernan's. His Garryowen growls. A biscuit tin becomes a boulder.
Girl on the strand. Romantic dreams, romantic prose. "As God made them He matched them." Lame in one foot.
Dublin is a character - every street named, every pub real, every church standing. Joyce claimed you could rebuild Dublin from Ulysses if the city were destroyed. The Liffey flows through it all.