Leopold Bloom

Stephen Dedalus

Bloom acts as a paternal, compassionate figure to Stephen, offering him kindness and guidance throughout their night together.

Joe Hynes

Joe Hynes is a journalist and acquaintance of Bloom, often discussing politics and mutual acquaintances in the pub.

Zoe Higgins

Bloom interacts with Zoe in the brothel, where she teases and engages him in a flirtatious but impersonal manner.

Lynch

Lynch is a medical student and companion of Stephen; Bloom observes him as a cynical, detached figure in the brothel scene.

Molly Bloom

Bloom and Molly are married, but their relationship is strained by emotional distance and Molly's affair with Blazes Boylan.

Mrs Purefoy

Bloom visits Mrs. Purefoy in the maternity hospital, showing his compassionate concern for her difficult labor.

Paddy Dignam

Paddy Dignam is a deceased acquaintance of Bloom, whose funeral Bloom attends and whose family Bloom later helps.

Blazes Boylan

Blazes Boylan is Molly's lover, and Bloom is painfully aware of their affair, feeling cuckolded and humiliated.

Joe Hynes

Joe Hynes is a journalist and acquaintance of Bloom, often discussing politics and mutual acquaintances in the pub.

Zoe Higgins

Bloom interacts with Zoe in the brothel, where she teases and engages him in a flirtatious but impersonal manner.

Molly Bloom

Bloom and Molly are married, but their relationship is strained by emotional distance and Molly's affair with Blazes Boylan.

Stephen Dedalus

Bloom acts as a paternal, compassionate figure to Stephen, offering him kindness and guidance throughout their night together.

Calypso

Bloom wakes, prepares breakfast, reads a letter from Milly, visits the butcher, and muses on metempsychosis and mortality.

V

Main perspective; reads Martha's letter, attends mass, muses on his father's death and his wife Molly.

VI

Attends Paddy Dignam's funeral, reflects on death and memory, interacts with other mourners.

Aeolus

Visits the newspaper office to arrange an ad for Keyes, proposing the 'House of Keys' design.

Lestrygonians

Protagonist; wanders through Dublin, observes the city, and reflects on life, death, and memory.

Wandering Rocks

Mr Bloom browses in a bookshop, reads from 'Sweets of Sin', and purchases the book.

Chapter XI: Sirens

Bloom sits in the Ormond Hotel bar, listening to music, reflecting on love and desire, and thinking of Molly and Martha.

XII

Arrives at Barney Kiernan's pub, is mocked and criticized by the Citizen and others, and attempts to discuss capital punishment scientifically.

Nausicaa

Rests on the strand, observes Gerty and the other girls, reflects on memory and desire, writes in the sand, and falls into a half-dream.

Oxen of the Sun

Present at the hospital, quietly reflective; thinks of his son Rudy, his daughter Milly, and his own father Rudolph.

XV

Bloom is the central figure of this hallucinatory sequence, appearing as a lord mayor, messianic figure, and tender guardian over Stephen.

Chapter XVI

Bloom is concerned for Stephen's well-being, reflecting on his own past political sympathies and the risks of bringing Stephen home. He offers Stephen cocoa and a place to sleep.

XVII

Returns home with Stephen, forgets his latchkey, urinates in the garden, reflects on past companions and the cosmos.

Penelope

Molly's husband; she reflects on his habits, their marriage, and his request for breakfast in bed.