The final words of Molly's reverie, and the very last words of the book, are: In the course of the monologue, Molly accepts Leopold into her bed, frets about his health, and then reminisces about their first meeting and about when she knew she was in love with him. One major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not, having an affair with Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan after ten years of her celibacy within the marriage (though some critics, including Gilbert, point out that the celibacy of Penelope is questionable). The final chapter is referred to as "Penelope", after Molly's mythical counterpart. Most critics since Stuart Gilbert, in his James Joyce's Ulysses, have named the episodes and they are often called chapters. Joyce's novel presented the action with numbered "episodes" rather than named chapters.
Molly's physicality is often contrasted with the intellectualism of the male characters, Stephen Dedalus in particular.
It is a compilation of the thoughts of Molly Bloom, the concert-singing wife of advertising agent Leopold Bloom, whose wanderings around Dublin are followed in much of the book. Molly Bloom's soliloquy is presented in the eighteenth, and final, chapter of James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
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