In 1921, James Joyce produced an eighteen stage schema for Ulysses to help his friend Stuart Gilbert grasp the fundamental structure of the novel. Gilbert later published it in 1930 in his own book, James Joyce's "Ulysses'.
| Title | Scene | Hour | Organ | Art | Colour | Symbol | Technic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telemachus | The Tower | 8 a.m. | Theology | White, gold | Heir | Narrative (young) | |
| 2 | Nestor | The School | 10 a.m. | History | Brown | Horse | Catechism (personal) | |
| 3 | Proteus | The Strand | 11 a.m. | Philology | Green | Tide | Monologue (male) | |
| 4 | Calypso | The House | 8 a.m. | Kidney | Economics | Orange | Nymph | Narrative (mature) |
| 5 | Lotus-eaters | The Bath | 10 a.m. | Genitals | Botany, Chemistry | Eucharist | Narcissism | |
| 6 | Hades | The Graveyard | 11 a.m. | Heart | Religion | White, black | Caretaker | Incubism |
| 7 | Aeolus | The Newspaper | 12 noon | Lungs | Rhetoric | Red | Editor | Enthymemic |
| 8 | Lestrygonians | The Lunch | 1 p.m. | Esophagus | Architecture | Constables | Peristaltic | |
| 9 | Scylla and Charybdis | The Library | 2 p.m. | Brain | Literature | Stratford, London | Dialectic | |
| 10 | Wandering Rocks | The Streets | 3 p.m. | Blood | Mechanics | Citizens | Labyrinth | |
| 11 | Sirens | The Concert Room | 4 p.m. | Ear | Music | Barmaids | Fuga per canonem | |
| 12 | Cyclops | The Tavern | 5 p.m. | Muscle | Politics | Fenian | Gigantism | |
| 13 | Nausicaa | The Rocks | 8 p.m. | Eye, Nose | Painting | Grey, blue | Virgin | Tumescence, detumescence |
| 14 | Oxen of the Sun | The Hospital | 10 p.m. | Womb | Medicine | White | Mothers | Embryonic development |
| 15 | Circe | The Brothel | 12 midnight | Locomotor Apparatus | Magic | Whore | Hallucination | |
| 16 | Eumaeus | The Shelter | 1 a.m. | Nerves | Navigation | Sailors | Narrative (old) | |
| 17 | Ithaca | The House | 2 a.m. | Skeleton | Science | Comets | Catechism (impersonal) | |
| 18 | Penelope | The Bed | Flesh | Earth | Monologue (female) |