Odysseus Nicholas Crabbe (based on the author) travelling back in time, discovering that he is the reincarnation of Odysseus, marrying Helen, being deified and ending up as one of the three Magi. James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" (first published 1918–1920) uses modern literary devices to narrate a single day in the life of a Dublin businessman named Leopold Bloom. Bloom's day turns out to bear many elaborate parallels to Odysseus' ten years of wandering. In Virginia Woolf's response novel "Mrs Dalloway" (1925) the comparable character is Clarisse Dalloway, who also appears in "The Voyage Out" (1915) and several short stories. Nikos Kazantzakis'
Protagonist ways, Hamlet is his own antagonist). Sometimes, a work will have a false protagonist, who may seem to be the protagonist, but then may disappear unexpectedly. The character Marion in Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho" (1960) is an example. A novel that contains a number of narratives may have a number of protagonists. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The First Circle", for example, depicts a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp. Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" depicts fifteen major characters involved in or affected by a war. "Little Women" boasts a cast of over five diverse females struggling with the