# Ulysses — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Ulysses by James Joyce.

- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/i.md): Buck Mulligan, a boisterous medical student, shaves on the rooftop of the Martello Tower while mocking the Catholic Mass. Stephen Dedalus, a brooding intellectual, joins him. Mulligan teases Stephen about his grief for h
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/i.md): The chapter opens on the morning of June 16, 1904, at the Martello Tower in Sandycove. Buck Mulligan, a boisterous medical student, shaves on the parapet and teases Stephen Dedalus about his refusal to pray at his mother
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/ii.md): Stephen Dedalus teaches a history lesson at Mr. Deasy's school, grappling with his own thoughts on history, memory, and identity. After the lesson, Mr. Deasy pays him and gives him a letter to publish, while making anti-
- [Proteus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/iii.md): Stephen Dedalus walks along Sandymount Strand, deeply immersed in philosophical and sensory reflections on the visible and audible world. He contemplates the nature of reality, memory, and his own artistic identity, reca
- [Calypso](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/iv.md): Leopold Bloom begins his day, preparing breakfast for his wife Molly, reading a letter from their daughter Milly, and reflecting on themes of mortality, reincarnation, and the mundane details of daily life. He visits the

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- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [Aeolus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [Lestrygonians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [Scylla and Charybdis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [Wandering Rocks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/x.md)
- [Chapter XI: Sirens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [Nausicaa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [Oxen of the Sun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/xvii.md)
- [Penelope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/xviii.md)

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