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1. What is Molloy’s character like?

Molloy is a confused and confusing older man with bad legs, no teeth, and a habit of contradicting himself, or making statements he disavows. He had a certain intimacy with his mother, and may again, but the reader does not know much else about his life, like where he ever worked, or went to school. He is hung up on puzzles related to a narrow existence of his own perceptions and the absolute of death.

2. What is Molloy’s relationship with death like?

Molloy is constantly referring to the time when life will end, and be summed up in a summary that will not be applicable to the experiences themselves. He tells the reader that in dying, “All grows dim. A little more and you’ll go blind. It’s in the head. It doesn’t work any more, it says. You go dumb as well and sounds fade…So that you say, I’ll manage this time, then perhaps once more, then perhaps a last time, then nothing more” (8).

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