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This study aims to investigate chance revealed in James Joyce's work. He has well recognized chance in the world and represented chance vividly in his literary works, especially in Ulysses. The protagonist of Ulysses, Leopold Bloom, experiences many coincidences during a day and realizes that something he cannot know exists in his world. He cannot know what the future will bring. He understands very well the complex system of his own world constructed upon "uncertainty principle". The philosophy of chance has raised the question the confidence with which we interpret world or text. The indeterminacy of character and the structure of open-ending interweaved in James Joyce's literary works deny a transcendent meaning. There only exists an unpredictable spectrum of possibilities among them. Joyce helps us better understand our own life and world by representing the contingent and accidental nature of our life and world in his works.