7 Eccles Street - Penelope

Molly is awake in bed wondering what they found to gabber about all night. This chapter is entirely Molly’s thoughts as she tries to get back to sleep. Its form is a stream of consciousness notably without punctuation save for eight full stops. She thinks about Bloom whom she remembers used to look like Lord Byron. She thinks about Boylan “with that tremendous big red brute of a thing he has”. She remembers Gibraltar as a child. She wishes someone would write her a love letter. She is frustrated as she gets her period. She thinks about Stephen. She concludes Boylan has no manners because he slapped her bottom when she didn’t call him Hugh. “Poldy has more spunk in him”. She recalls Bloom’s marriage proposal on Howth Head, she was thinking of many things he didn’t know, of Mulvey and Gibraltar. “I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes”.