Bloom, Rudolph (Rudy). Son of Leopold Bloom and Molly Bloom. Rudy died ten and a half years before the events of Ulysses when he was eleven days old. Bloom thinks of him often, and his longing for his lost son is a large part of what draws him to Stephen Dedalus. Rudy appears in a hallucination at the end of Circe at the age he would have been if he had lived. Molly knitted a white woolen vest or jacket for his burial, mentioned in Oxen of the Sun and Penelope, and possibly alluded to in Circe when “a white lambkin peeps out of [Rudy’s] waistcoat pocket.” Both Bloom (in Lestrygonians) and Molly (in [Penelope]) state that intimacy between them hasn’t been the same since Rudy’s death.