Paper topic

I have been reading a lot of modernist literature this semester, and looking at Ulysses through the lens of context, particularly in search of a paper topic. One thing that has been an extremely prominent theme in most of what I've been reading is the role of family in modernist texts. Often families are featured in these texts as extremely dysfunctional, broken, or decaying tableaus of what the "family" has been idealized as in modern culture. However in everything I've read which features families like this there is something beautifully triumphant about them by the end. The family is greater than the sum of it's parts. I guess though what I particularly like about these families is that they don't seem to survive in spite of the fact that they appear to be broken, grotesque or perverted, but rather, because of it. In a strange way at least. All this is a very long winded way of proposing that the role of the family and its power beyond the individual human spirit's is very important in Ulysses. Of course not having finished it, (I think it ends well, right?) and the argument depends pretty heavily on the outcome of the narrative, but I was thinking of writing about Milly and Leopolds relationship, as well as Molly and his. I feel like there might be more to get into, however Stephens family certainly does not serve to prove my point. Can anybody think of other examples from the text up to this point which demonstrate the salvation of Bloom through his family? Slash, does anyone severely disagree with me. Feedback would be extremely appreciated and helpful.