The text is an extract from James Joyce's "Ulysses", and it is the close of the novel. The text is written in the form of the stream of consciousness where the writer describes Molly's emotions and thoughts. Molly is an important character: she is Leopold's wife and she is middle-aged. In the text Molly is in her bed, and she is trying to fall asleep, but she can't because she is thinking about a lot of things: about the next day, about the late hour in the night, about her room's wall paper, about shopping, about her past with her husband, about her lovers.

She is alone in bed at night thinking about lots of things: it follows that in her minds there is the flow of her thoughts. The author adopts the stream of consciousness: all thoughts are reported without using punctuation. As a consequence the result is chaotic: it is very difficult to understand all the conjectures between her thoughts. The intelligent reader is aware that the time of narration is the time of consciousness of the character: there is a simulteneous concept of time. Molly refers to her past, her present and her future, but events are not in a linear way!

Molly supposes that people in China and nuns and some priets are getting up. After thinking about her alarmclock, she tries to feel asleep. Molly organises her following day ("today"): she will wash the house. She affirms to love flowers and cakes. Molly thinks about natural elements: sea, waves, country, fields, wheat, oats, lakes, flowers, rivers and all colours, smells and perfume of nature.

In a second moment she reflects about God, atheists and people who have a bad coscience. She remembers her relationship with "him" (Leopold): she thinks about their first kiss, his sweet words ("flower of the mountain") and other men!

Later Molly remembers the sentry, spanish girls, the gowl market, the poor donkeys, the wheels of the carts, the old catle and handsome Moors. She still hints at her love for flowers: she quotes rosegardens, jessamine, geraniums and cactuses.

Last but not least, she still thinks about what Leopold told her: "flower of the mountain". She tries to remember their kiss in which "I put my arms around him" and affirms that she said and will say again "Yes".