The text I’m going to analyze is an extract from James Joyce’s Ulysses.

The extract is Molly’s Final Monologue.

As the reader can see from the subtitle the text is made up by the technique of Interior Monologue. All what a character thinks is written out. In this case the narrator writes all Marion Bloom’s thoughts.

In writing her thoughts Joyce adopts the stream-of-consciousness method: each sentence is not delimited by punctuation. The absence of punctuation makes more complicated and chaotic the reading of this text.

The scene is set in Molly’s bedroom, at night. She is in bed completely relaxed and she starts thinking.

She thinks about people in China, about what were nuns doing in that moment, about a kind of flower and about what she’s going to do tomorrow. After that she refers to the nature and what aspects of it she loves. Subsequently she thinks about atheists and God. At the end of the extract she thinks about the past, mainly remembering a long kiss (between her actual husband) occurred 16 years before.