Bertolini, C. D. “Bloom’s Death in “Ithaca,” or the END of Ulysses.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 31 no. 2, 2008, pp. 39-52. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/233963.

In this journal, Bertolini examines the possibility that Leopold Bloom may have died in Episode 17 “Ithaca.” The journal looks at the relationship between both Molly and Bloom and how from the beginning we see the ways in which they communicate are often attributed to the unspoken. This idea that such communication exists, paired with the notion that there is tension between fact and opinion, shows how the narrative technique begins to take shape using a series of questions and answers. Bertolini references Hugh Kenner, who says that “Bloom’s question is a response to ‘a murmur the narrator has not transcribed’ or to a nonexistent question he calls a ‘no-murmur’ or ‘no-questions’ “ (42) The fact that there is such a technique illustrates to the reader that information does not necessarily need to be communicated out loud, as demonstrated by Bloom and Molly, and Bloom’s moments of streams of consciousness.