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This paper investigates the issue of multiple styles or techniques employed in Joyce's Ulysses in terms of postmodernist literary perspective. As is well known, Ulysses, which is composed of eighteen episodes, has a different style per episode. Up to now, the various styles have been studied frequently, but Joyce's purpose of using them has not attracted much scholarly attention. The present article, an Odyssean journey into the text, is to explore the reason why he exercised such a chameleonic technique. The paper focuses on the examination of styles in text's latter half, because they are much more varied than those in its first half. This means that Joyce needed more and more freedom, as the text progresses, to demonstrate the reality as extensively as possible. Upon scrutiny, his various styles reflect Joyce's vision of relativity or uncertainty in life. Since it is impossible for a single mode of expression to carry all the complexities of life in full, Joyce exploited multiple techniques in order that he might reveal various aspects of reality. In this sense, his strategy of multiple styles is not extrinsic to a central meaning; rather, it creates the meanings in the text.