The final episode in Ulysses seems more like a coda then a continuation. Then again, it is rich with the signs of a new beginning, so maybe it's better to say it feels like the beginning of a connected but different work. In either case, the novel has seemed to resolve itself by the end of Ithaca. The plotless last episode adds nothing to the story.
Femininity has been a symbol for creative acts throughout the novel, and so it also seems to read as the sort of wellspring for the book, for Bloom's quest, and maybe for the lives of all the Dubliners in the novel. The virtue of the chapter here is the remarkably ambiguous power of Molly's. One critic has compared her voice to Gerty's. Though far coarser and not nearly as hypocritical, I can see where this interpretation is coming from. Molly is not an earth mother, nor a goddess. She is a lower middle class woman who had an unhappy childhood, but who is still intent on getting something out of life.
And for Bloom, that's enough.
