Blazes Boylan

Blazes Boylan

Hugh “Blazes” Boylan is Bloom’s primary antagonist. Boylan is a promoter for the concert that Molly Bloom will soon be singing with, and Molly and Boylan are having an affair. Boylan surfaces multiple times throughout the story and provides Bloom...
Stephen Dedalus

Stephen Dedalus

Stephen is a young intellectual about town and is the focus of the first three episodes of the novel. Stephen is Joyce’s literary version of himself and reflects the author both in appearance and personality. Stephen is tortured of late by the recent death of...
Molly Bloom

Molly Bloom

Molly is Leopold Bloom’s wife and the object of his affection. Molly is also the mother of Millicent (Milly) Bloom and Rudolph (Rudy) Bloom. Molly is an opera singer and is having an affair with her manager Blazes Boylan, her manager.
Leopold Bloom

Leopold Bloom

Bloom is our protagonist. The majority if the book follows him as he conducts business in Dublin, interacts with Joyce’s extensive cast of characters, and ruminates on the impending affair between his beloved wife Molly and her manager Blazes Boylan....