I'm going to analyse an extract from Ulysses, written by James Joyce.

The extract is Molly's final monologue. Molly Bloom, whose real name is Marion Bloom, is the wife of Leopold Bloom, the main character. She represents the characters of Penelope in Ulysses by Omero, but they are very different.  Penelope is the woman who waits his husband and she needs to be protect by him. Molly is the symbol of the modern woman. She has a strong personality and she is on the same level of her husband.

The extract shows Molly in her bed early in the morning and she is thinking.
Joyce uses the stream-of-consciousness to convey her thoughts: there is no punctuation and connectors. Her thoughts are connected by association. The result is a very difficult text in which Joyce demand a lot to the reader.

Time is the first concept that Molly connected to people who get up in China. When she thinks to China she also thinks about their hair style. The Her thoughts switch from a geographic image again to time and she starts to think about nuns ringing the angelus. So the intelligent reader can understand that it is early in the morning because the angelus is a morning religious function. She envies the nuns because they are not disturbed during the night or are disturbed only by a priest for the night function. As a consequence Molly sometimes is disturbed during her sleep. She thinks to the alarm clock next door that she cannot swallow.  She would like to doze off and so she starts to count. She can fall into sleep and  she sees the flowers in wallpaper in Lombard streets and she makes a comparison between the wallpaper and an apron. The apron is a present of her husband, but she does not like it, indeed she wears it only twice. After that she remembers flowers and she would like to buy some flowers to decorate her house. Molly is thinking about future. She makes a plan: she would like to clean and to do the place up for the arrival of his husband and a guest.