# Rudy Bloom — Ulysses character guide

> Rudy Bloom in Ulysses by James Joyce.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** little Rudy, Rudy, Rudolph Bloom, Rudolph, Bloom

**First appearance:** 0005-iv

## Who they are

Leopold and Molly's infant son who died shortly after birth.

## In the story

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/v)

Bloom's father; remembered in the opening lines as having died of grief.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ulysses_se/chapters/xv)

Rudy appears as a vision—a fairy boy in an Eton suit, reading and smiling, representing Bloom's lost son.

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