Ulysses
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Episode 1: Telemachus Episode 2: Nestor Episode 3: Proteus Episode 4: Calypso Episode 5: Lotus Eaters Episode 6: Hades Episode 7: Aeolus Episode 8: Lestrygonians Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis Episode 10: Wandering Rocks Episode 11: Sirens Episode 12: Cyclops Episode 13: Nausicaa Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun Episode 15: Circe Episode 16: Eumaeus Episode 17: Ithaca Episode 18: Penelope
Themes
All Themes Alienation and the Quest for Belonging Literature, Meaning, and Perspective Love and Sex Fate vs. Free Will Religion, Atheism, and Philosophy Irish Identity and Nationalism
Quotes
Characters
All Characters Leopold Bloom Stephen Dedalus Marion (“Molly”) Bloom Alf Bergan Rudolf Bloom, Sr. Rudolf Bloom, Jr. Hugh (“Blazes”) Boylan Josie Breen Cissy Caffrey Private Carr Martha Clifford Bella Cohen Father Cowley Martin Cunningham Garrett Deasy Simon Dedalus Dilly Dedalus Dixon Reuben J. Dodd Bob Doran Haines Zoe Higgins Joe Hynes Corny Kelleher Tom Kernan Ned Lambert Matt Lenehan Vincent Lynch Bantam Lyons Gerty MacDowell Florence MacCabe C.P. M’Coy Professor MacHugh John Henry Menton Malachi (“Buck”) Mulligan Murphy Joseph Patrick Nannetti John Wyse Nolan J.J. O’Molloy Jack Power Mina Purefoy Mrs. Riordan George Russell Skin-the-Goat Florry Talbot Lipoti Virag The Citizen The Hely’s Admen The Man in the Brown Macintosh
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All Terms Ascot Gold Cup Boer War Childs Murder Case “The Croppy Boy” Dead Sea Don Giovanni “Là ci darem” Edward VII Elijah Foot and Mouth Disease Gibraltar Guinness Haroun al Raschid Invincibles Leah the Forsaken Limerick “Love’s Old Sweet Song” “M’appari” Martello Tower Metempsychosis Nelson’s Pillar Nighttown Omphalos Parallax Charles Stewart Parnell Phoenix Park Murders Pianola Pyrrhus River Liffey Sandycove Sandymount Strand Shilling Theosophy “Who Goes With Fergus?”
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Ulysses

by

James Joyce
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Martha Clifford Character Analysis

Martha Clifford is the pseudonym of Leopold Bloom’s secret romantic pen pal. (She knows him only as “Henry Flower.”) Bloom opens Martha’s lusty letter in “Lotus Eaters,” thinks about it all day, and writes her back in the bar during “Sirens.” This represents his own mild flirtation with infidelity—which readers may or may not find comparable to Molly’s affair with Blazes Boylan.

Martha Clifford Quotes in Ulysses

The Ulysses quotes below are all either spoken by Martha Clifford or refer to Martha Clifford. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Alienation and the Quest for Belonging Theme Icon
).
Episode 11: Sirens Quotes

Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.
Imperthnthn thnthnthn.
Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips.
Horrid! And gold flushed more.
A husky fifenote blew.
Blew. Blue bloom is on the.
Goldpinnacled hair.
A jumping rose on satiny breast of satin, rose of Castile.
Trilling, trilling: Idolores.
Peep! Who’s in the … peepofgold?
Tink cried to bronze in pity.
And a call, pure, long and throbbing. Longindying call.
Decoy. Soft word. But look: the bright stars fade. Notes chirruping answer.
O rose! Castile. The morn is breaking.
Jingle jingle jaunted jingling.
[…]
Done.
Begin!

Related Characters: Leopold Bloom, Hugh (“Blazes”) Boylan, Martha Clifford, Simon Dedalus, Ben Dollard, Lydia Douce, Mina Kennedy, Matt Lenehan, Pat
Related Symbols: Jingling
Literature, Meaning, and Perspective Theme Icon
Page Number: 210-211
Explanation and Analysis:
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Martha Clifford Quotes in Ulysses

The Ulysses quotes below are all either spoken by Martha Clifford or refer to Martha Clifford. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Alienation and the Quest for Belonging Theme Icon
).
Episode 11: Sirens Quotes

Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.
Imperthnthn thnthnthn.
Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips.
Horrid! And gold flushed more.
A husky fifenote blew.
Blew. Blue bloom is on the.
Goldpinnacled hair.
A jumping rose on satiny breast of satin, rose of Castile.
Trilling, trilling: Idolores.
Peep! Who’s in the … peepofgold?
Tink cried to bronze in pity.
And a call, pure, long and throbbing. Longindying call.
Decoy. Soft word. But look: the bright stars fade. Notes chirruping answer.
O rose! Castile. The morn is breaking.
Jingle jingle jaunted jingling.
[…]
Done.
Begin!

Related Characters: Leopold Bloom, Hugh (“Blazes”) Boylan, Martha Clifford, Simon Dedalus, Ben Dollard, Lydia Douce, Mina Kennedy, Matt Lenehan, Pat
Related Symbols: Jingling
Literature, Meaning, and Perspective Theme Icon
Page Number: 210-211
Explanation and Analysis:
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