There is a lot of despair featured in Bloom's representation. Thinking of his own father's suicide while others condemn the act on the way to Glasnevin Cemetery, Bloom states, "They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already." Bloom thinks constantly during this day, of his wife’s affair, still managing to perform several charitable acts: "Today. Today. Not think." Bloom possesses the ability to cheer himself up and to pragmatically refuse to think about depressing topics.
During the novel, the reader witnesses two emotional crises that plague Bloom; the absence/ loss of his male family line and the infidelity of his wife. The untimely deaths of both Bloom’s father by suicide and only son,