What Does It Mean for Something to Happen in a Story?

James Joyce's novel Ulysses is kind of famous for all kinds of reasons but one of the things that is really remarkable about it is that it's an epic which takes place over the course of a single day. We're trained to sort of think something has to blow up for it to be a major event and that's obviously not trueYeah I feel like those books just never let up they just zoom but I've heard people say they're slow paced so it's really about what the book considers a major event  and that's the thing this is all in the eye of the beholder yeah.