This essay deals with the two married women, Mrs. Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Bloom in Ulysses by James Joyce, focusing on the issues of the crisis in their identities within the marriage system and their struggle to get independent realm in it. The title of Wolf`s text, Mrs. Dalloway and Mrs. Bloom emphasize the fact that their names themselves always evoke their husbands such as Mr. Dalloway and Mr. Bloom instead of their own names. Furthermore, the subtitle of the last episode of Ulysses, "Penelope," referring to the faithful wife of Odysseus despite his numerous extramarital affairs with other women, defines Molly`s primary role as the good wife of Bloom. Therefore, the title and subtitle play the role to reveal the situation in which the two women experience their identity crisis upon their getting married in those days. However, two women characters are not the traditional submissive and conforming to the conservative male-centered ideology. First of all, they seek to establish their own place in the existing marriage system. For example, the fact that for Clarissa the most important element for choosing her future husband is whether the man can give her "a little independence" (MD 86) suggests that she does not want to give up her own independence in spite of her getting marriage. But her struggle is not an easy one and there exists the gap between Mrs. Dalloway who "had the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown" (MD 11) and Clarissa who dreamt to "reform the world" (MD 36) and believed that she fell "in love with women" (MD 35). This gap does not come from Clarissa`s own fault but from the social structure which prevents women from acquiring their economical and political independence. In the case of Mrs. Molly who belongs to the lower class of her society, she directly attacks the conservative male ideology by means of her powerful interior monologue. To begin with, she divulges her husband`s unfaithfulness through numerating his various love affairs. Then she states her own sexual desire without reservedness, which has traditionally been forbidden in the western society. This strategy of being "anti Penelope" is effective to dismantle the patriarchal ideology in which women`s social position is secondary to that of men`s. However, the fact that Molly`s powerful voice is completely confined within her inner thought indicates that women of those days did not have the means to express their voices publically.