Molly Bloom Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Molly's physicality is often contrasted with the intellectualism of the male characters, Stephen Dedalus in particular. Joyce's novel presented the action with numbered "episodes" rather than named chapters. Most critics since Stuart Gilbert, in his "James Joyce's Ulysses", have named the episodes and they are often called chapters. The final chapter is referred to as "Penelope", after Molly's mythical counterpart. 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. The final
The Dancers at the End of Time involved a scene where the main character, Mavis Ming, was whipped into submission by Bloom. This was later rewritten by the author. The novel has also been published under the title "A Messiah at the End of Time". "Elric at the End of Time" is one of two Elric short stories included in the eponymous collection, "Elric at the End of Time". Its characters include Elric, Una Persson, and Lord Jagged. Jherek Carnelian, son of the Iron Orchid and an unknown father (later revealed to be Lord Jagged) is the protagonist of the novels "An Alien Heat", "The Hollow Lands"