Ulysses

Ulysses

by

James Joyce

Rudolf Bloom, Sr. Character Analysis

Leopold Bloom’s father was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who committed suicide in the Queen’s Hotel (which he also managed). He briefly appears in a flashback in “Circe.” Bloom thinks of his father’s death, like his son Rudy’s, throughout the day on June 16. Together, these two deaths represent the tragic break in Bloom’s family bloodline.

Rudolf Bloom, Sr. Quotes in Ulysses

The Ulysses quotes below are all either spoken by Rudolf Bloom, Sr. or refer to Rudolf Bloom, Sr.. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Alienation and the Quest for Belonging Theme Icon
).
Episode 6: Hades Quotes

White horses with white frontlet plumes came round the Rotunda corner, galloping. A tiny coffin flashed by. In a hurry to bury. A mourning coach. Unmarried. Black for the married. Piebald for bachelors. Dun for a nun.
—Sad, Martin Cunningham said. A child.
A dwarf’s face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy’s was. Dwarf’s body, weak as putty, in a whitelined deal box. Burial friendly society pays. Penny a week for a sod of turf. Our. Little. Beggar. Baby. Meant nothing. Mistake of nature. If it’s healthy it’s from the mother. If not from the man. Better luck next time.
—Poor little thing, Mr Dedalus said. It’s well out of it.
The carriage climbed more slowly the hill of Rutland square. Rattle his bones. Over the stones. Only a pauper. Nobody owns.
—In the midst of life, Martin Cunningham said.
—But the worst of all, Mr Power said, is the man who takes his own life.

Related Characters: Martin Cunningham (speaker), Simon Dedalus (speaker), Jack Power (speaker), Leopold Bloom, Rudolf Bloom, Sr., Patrick (“Paddy”) Dignam, Sr.
Page Number: 79
Explanation and Analysis:
Episode 18: Penelope Quotes

I thought to myself afterwards it must be real love if a man gives up his life for her that way for nothing I suppose there are a few men like that left its hard to believe in it though unless it really happened to me the majority of them with not a particle of love in their natures to find two people like that nowadays full up of each other that would feel the same way as you do theyre usually a bit foolish in the head his father must have been a bit queer to go and poison himself after her still poor old man I suppose he felt lost

Related Characters: Marion (“Molly”) Bloom (speaker), Leopold Bloom, Ellen Bloom, Millicent (“Milly”) Bloom, Rudolf Bloom, Sr.
Page Number: 631
Explanation and Analysis:
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Rudolf Bloom, Sr. Quotes in Ulysses

The Ulysses quotes below are all either spoken by Rudolf Bloom, Sr. or refer to Rudolf Bloom, Sr.. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Alienation and the Quest for Belonging Theme Icon
).
Episode 6: Hades Quotes

White horses with white frontlet plumes came round the Rotunda corner, galloping. A tiny coffin flashed by. In a hurry to bury. A mourning coach. Unmarried. Black for the married. Piebald for bachelors. Dun for a nun.
—Sad, Martin Cunningham said. A child.
A dwarf’s face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy’s was. Dwarf’s body, weak as putty, in a whitelined deal box. Burial friendly society pays. Penny a week for a sod of turf. Our. Little. Beggar. Baby. Meant nothing. Mistake of nature. If it’s healthy it’s from the mother. If not from the man. Better luck next time.
—Poor little thing, Mr Dedalus said. It’s well out of it.
The carriage climbed more slowly the hill of Rutland square. Rattle his bones. Over the stones. Only a pauper. Nobody owns.
—In the midst of life, Martin Cunningham said.
—But the worst of all, Mr Power said, is the man who takes his own life.

Related Characters: Martin Cunningham (speaker), Simon Dedalus (speaker), Jack Power (speaker), Leopold Bloom, Rudolf Bloom, Sr., Patrick (“Paddy”) Dignam, Sr.
Page Number: 79
Explanation and Analysis:
Episode 18: Penelope Quotes

I thought to myself afterwards it must be real love if a man gives up his life for her that way for nothing I suppose there are a few men like that left its hard to believe in it though unless it really happened to me the majority of them with not a particle of love in their natures to find two people like that nowadays full up of each other that would feel the same way as you do theyre usually a bit foolish in the head his father must have been a bit queer to go and poison himself after her still poor old man I suppose he felt lost

Related Characters: Marion (“Molly”) Bloom (speaker), Leopold Bloom, Ellen Bloom, Millicent (“Milly”) Bloom, Rudolf Bloom, Sr.
Page Number: 631
Explanation and Analysis: