A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man Analysis

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man paints a unique but very vivid image of what James Joyce had on his mind. Joyce's way of being able to distribute the point of view from the character gave a feeling of existence in the story than telling it in a third person point of view. His multitudinous thoughts and feelings allows the reader to relate to the mind state at which Stephen is in. Stephen's Intellect is very rudimentary in the beginning. He doesn't seem to understand most of his feelings or why he has them simply due to his young age. With this being the case for most children, his parents are never mentioned neither are any siblings showing the lack of interaction or learning. Although not stated the environment that comes to mind
With attempts of justifying the unknown, there were questions of his own that were just clear to his understanding. Almost immediately the story takes a shift of tone when he decides to leave his friends and family behind in pursuit of happiness. Was he ever going to find happiness? Stephen's curiosity for more than just an explanation leaves him dissatisfied creating mental instability. Instead of finding time to grow and mature, Stephen's took on a life of a loner's and slowly began unraveling with not a care for the world. It is important to note how James Joyce created the mood differently from the third person perspective in Ovid's writings. Joyce makes sure that it is known that whatever the character is going through is because of his own actions. There is a strong case for loss of love in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man, compared to seeking love in "Metamorphosis". Stephen's wasn't looking for any kind of sympathy, but he did let it be known that he was leaving. It wasn't that he had turned his back on everyone but simply felt that no one understood him. Therefore, he still planned to pay homage to his community with his works. The question here presented is "Why exist in a society that I feel that I am other than the