> Joyce’s great novel has nothing except the most tenuous and inessential connection with the Odyssey Joyce’s own chart of the construction of the book[0] feat

> Joyce’s great novel has nothing except the most tenuous and inessential connection with the Odyssey Joyce’s own chart of the construction of the book[0] features the Odyssey chapter titles as prominently as any of the other issues. Certainly there is an "essential" connection to the Odyssey, though it is just one rich ingredient for this masterpiece among others. Joyce’s later regret can be chalked down to people imagining parallels that he didn’t intend, but I don’t think there’s a scholar around who doesn’t believe that Joyce wrote the barmaids as a parallel to the sirens, or the Citizen to the Cyclops. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_schema_for_Ulysses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_schema_for_Ulysses