” Eventually we’ll see him expand that song into poetry and theories of art. At the novel’s opening we see him as an infant artist who sings “his song.
” The force that eventually unites these contradictory Stephens is his overwhelming desire to become an artist, to create.
“Have you never loved anyone? his fellow student, Cranly, asks him. Unhappy as a perpetual outsider, he lacks the warmth to engage in true friendship. Taught to revere his father, he can’t help but see that Simon Dedalus is a drunken failure. Stephen loves his mother, yet eventually hurts her by rejecting her Catholic faith. The other is courageous enough to confront and question authority. One is a timid outsider bullied by his classmates. The other readily turns to prostitutes to satisfy his sexual urges.
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