Dodd is a Jewish moneylender whom many Dubliners dislike and disparage. In “Hades,” Leopold Bloom, Martin Cunningham, Simon Dedalus, and Jack Power pass Dodd on the way to Paddy Dignam’s funeral and remember how he paid a boatman to fish his son out of the River Liffey after a suicide attempt. Other characters’ anti-Semitic remarks about Dodd point to the prejudice and exclusion that Leopold Bloom also faces in Dublin. In “Circe,” Dodd appears as “Ruben J. Antichrist, wandering Jew,” which underlines this point. In fact, even Bloom hates him and calls him a “dirty Jew.”