When I read Ulysses, I thought I was an outsider and couldn't understand what James Joyce wanted to express in this work. But when I asked my classmates, I wasn't the only one.

Obviously, to understand the work, it is not only thanks to reading skills, I think we need to understand Joyce's methods of arranging and presenting information. Additionally, the story in Ulysses would not have made any sense if I did not have knowledge of the events of Dedalus and Bloom in The Odyssey. So it's clear that Ulysses itself is an Archive that readers don't just read one or two books to understand, but must read many works to understand what Ulysses is. Each of the 18 chapters corresponds to events occurring in the epic. Unique writing, such as allusions or references to another literary work, creates a father-son relationship between Bloom and Dedalus, similar to that of Odysseus and his son Telemachus in The Odysseus.

As a person who has studied literature for two semesters, I have figured it might take me another year or so to get a better understanding of the work. I really like this work, although it was difficult, I actually learned the characteristics and classics of modern period literature. I feel like this is one work but it contains hundreds of other works with diverse genres. Another problem is that when I tried to find an actual plot, it didn’t exist in this novel. Therefore, it must take time and effort to have better grasp of this materpiece.