Text: Molly Bloom's monologue, from J. Joyce, Ulisses, Penguin Books 1963

Task: Answer the following questions:

• What atracted Molly in her future husband?
• How is the exotic atmosphere of Gibraltar recreated by Joyce?

OBJECTIVES
Cultural: learning about foreign literature
Intertextual: reading between the lines what sensation language refers to

Linguistic: finding in  the text the words that make the characterization of a choice and of a place.

• What atracted Molly in her future husband?

Molly Bloom was attracted in Leopold Bloom because "she saw he undestood or felt what a woman is and she knew she could always get around him".

• How is the exotic atmosphere of Gibraltar recreating by Joyce?

The exotic atmosphere of Gibraltar is recreated by means of recalling the  figures and colours of far places (sailors, Spanish girls with shawls ans tall combs, the sea crimson like fire, the coloured houses, cactuses, glorious sunsets) but also with the help of sounds (Spanish girl laughing, castanets).

Joyce refers to the sensations recalled by sounds and figures.