Ulysses

A Dublin advertising canvasser whose wanderings across the city on 16 June 1904 form the central thread of the book.

A young teacher and aspiring writer, carried over from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, who spends the day adrift in Dublin.

Leopold's wife, a concert singer, whose unpunctuated thoughts close the novel.

Stephen's irreverent medical-student housemate, who opens the novel in the Martello tower.