Gibraltar Remembered

There are quite a number of references to Spain and the Andalusian women in Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end, last 30 pages, of Ulysses, by James Joyce.

In this sequence Molly is reminiscing on her early experiences and her first taste of sexuality with a serving British soldier while she lived with her father in Gibraltar. She shared this experience while leaning against a Moorish wall in the old town of Gibraltar.

The whole passage is quite explicit in nature and uses the "stream of consciousness" technique, which Joyce brought to literature for the first time. The section is referred to as Molly Bloom's soliloquy or the Penelope episode/chapter. ©2006.

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