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List of Ulysses characters

This is a list of characters from Ulysses by James Joyce.

Principal characters
Leopold Bloom is a protagonist and hero in Joyce's Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. The character was inspired by James Joyce's close friend, Aron Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), author of ''Zeno's Conscience''. • Molly Bloom, the wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not. • Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's Ulysses. Stephen Dedalus appears in Ulysses as the character who corresponds to Telemachus; less overtly, he embodies aspects of Hamlet. He is the protagonist of the first three chapters. Subsequently, Leopold Bloom is introduced, and Stephen's interactions with Bloom and his wife, Molly, form much of the final chapters' substance. ==Other characters==
Other characters
Almidano Artifoni, an opera singer. • Mrs. Yelverton Barry has been described as "one of the fantasized sadistic women of 'Circe who accuse Bloom in the courtroom scene of having made sexual advances—in her case, of writing to her claiming to have observed her "peerless globes" in the Theatre Royal, and offered to send her a work of fiction by a Monsieur Paul de Kock. She also features as a character in the play, Ulysses in Nighttown. • Mrs. Bellingham is one of the fantasized sadistic women of the "Circe" chapter who accuse Bloom in the courtroom scene of having made sexual advances—in her case, of sending her a letter asking her to "commit adultery at the earliest possible opportunity". She also features as a character in the play, Ulysses in Nighttown, and was played by Bernadette McKenna and Maire Ni Ghrainne at the Abbey Theatre. • Richard Best is a character based on Celtic scholar Richard Irvine Best. Best was an acquaintance of J. M. Synge and Joyce. Best was depicted as one of the characters in the National Library scene in Episode 9 "Scylla and Charybdis". Best was known to have disapproved of Joyce's characterisation of him. • Denis Breen is the husband of Josie Breen and is a figure of fun. A person unknown sent him a postcard with "U.p: up" written on it and he seeks to take a libel action for ten thousand pounds. Leopold states that Josie's marriage to Denis was a case of "beauty and the beast". • Cissy, Jacky, and Tommy Caffrey: Cissy Caffrey is a friend of Gerty MacDowell and encounters Bloom on Sandymount Strand. She appears again in the "Nighttown" sequence, apparently as a lady of the night. Jacky and Tommy are her two younger brothers who she is minding at Sandymount. • Nurse Callan is a nurse at the National Maternity Hospital. She is described as a "virgin" and attends to a local woman, Mina Purefoy. She is described as brushing a Dr. O'Hare's coat attentively. • Private Carr – a British soldier. • The Citizen is an old Irish nationalist with xenophobic and anti-semitic views who engages in an argument with Leopold in Barney Kiernan's pub, ultimately throwing a biscuit tin at him. "The Citizen" is an important figure in the "Cyclops" episode of the novel. The character has been described as having characteristics not only of the mythological Cyclops but also of the Irish epic figure Finn McCool. "The Citizen" is, in part, a satirical portrait of Irish nationalist (and Gaelic Athletic Association founder) Michael Cusack and Joyce's portrayal operates to expose what one critic called the "xenophobic ideologies of radical Celticists". • Martha Clifford is a correspondent with Leopold Bloom, who according to some scholars is a pseudonymous identity for over a half a dozen other characters. • Bella Cohen is the brothel-mistress in the "Nighttown" sequence, and has a large and mannish appearance. She has a son in an Oxford college. • Richie, Sara (Sally), and Walter GouldingHaines is an English student who comes to visit Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus in the Martello Tower in Sandymount. Haines is somewhat anti-semitic in attitude and is in Ireland to study Irish culture. • Zoe Higgins is a namesake of Leopold's mother and later steals his potato and dances with Stephen Dedalus. • Joe HynesCorny Kelleher – an undertaker's employee who rejects Leopold's request for assistance for Stephen Dedalus who was injured in a fight with Private Carr. • Lenehan a bowsie (lowlife) and freelance journalist who appears in the "Aeolus", "The Wandering Rocks" "Sirens", "Cyclops", "Oxen of the Sun" and "Circe" episodes and is a central character in Two Gallants chapter of Dubliners. • Vincent Lynch is a somewhat treacherous friend of Stephen Dedalus, who is present in the National Maternity Hospital in the "Oxen of the Sun" chapter. In "Circe", he is impatient with Dedalus' drunkenness and abandons Dedalus after leaving Bella Cohen's establishment, having helped spend Dedalus' money. • Madden is introduced in the novel as a medical student, though he later appears as "Dr." Madden in the medical examination of Leopold Bloom where he states that "In the interest of coming generations I suggest that the parts affected should be preserved in spirits of wine in the national teratological museum". and is a lover of another character, Lynch, being almost caught in the bushes with him by Father Conmee. She is thin in appearance and dresses with upwardly mobile aspirations. • George William Russell (A.E.) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (sometimes written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, artistic painter and Irish nationalist. His first book of poems, Homeward: Songs by the Way (1894), established him in what was known as the Irish Literary Revival, where Æ met the young James Joyce in 1902 and introduced him to other Irish literary figures, including William Butler Yeats. He appears as a character in the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode, where he dismisses Stephen's theories on Shakespeare. His collected poems was published in 1913, with a second edition in 1926. • Cyril Sargent is a pupil of Stephen Dedalus and is an uncertain and mediocre student, reminding Dedalus of his own childhood and uncertainties. ==References==
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