I am now going to study an extract of Molly's Monologue taken from J. Joyce's Ulysses. In writing the monologue, Joyce uses the stream-of-consciousness method and the extract taken into consideration speaks about the moment in which Molly is in bed and she is thinking, all her thoughts are reported without punctuation.

The use of the stream-of-consciousness implies the absence of the narrator's mediation and the non use of the conventional and orthographic elements. The result is that for the reader is difficult to understand Molly's thoughts and he or she has to understand where molly's thought is going.

It is very difficult for the reader to understand what Molly is thinking, she changes a lot of times her themes. For example she thinks about flowers but suddenly she changes her though and she thinks about the wallpaper in Lombard Street, but the reader does not know what she is exactly referring to. We can say that Molly is thinking unconsciously because she tries to sleep but her though does not permit her to sleep, she tries to count the numbers to fall asleep but she starts again thinking, so she thinks about the past, the present and the future.

Going on reading the reader knows about her feelings and past experiences with men. But on my opinion, it is difficult to understand what is she exactly thinking because I do not know the story so all the shifts she makes result a complicated twine to understand.