The Relationships Behind Portrait :: Art, James Joyce

In A Portrait of the Artist as a girlish Man by James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus, reacts towards his parents the same as many veritable(prenominal) modern-day adolescents and adolescents of the early 1900s. Stephens attitude and feelings towards his parents motley throughout the course of this book. His feelings change in a pattern similar to one of typical adolescents. insubstantial attitudes have not changed much throughout the years. Adolescents change physically and emotionally during the early years of their life. The activities the adolescents do may have changed but the intentions lav those acts have not. Stephen has a diametric relationship with family members early(a) than his parents like his Uncle Charles and his auntie Dante. Many adolescents have a different relationship with family members other than their parents. In the article, Joyce and His First Self-Portrait by James T. Farrell, Farrell states no clear and full imprint of Stephens relationship with his mother is set forth.(3) I believe this statement could be neat and false. It could be true on the grounds of no definite feelings described in the book from Stephen. There is also no change of feelings throughout the course of Stephens adolescence that are mentioned. Only three events in the book mentions a relationship amidst Stephen and his mother. The first instance is when Stephen is teased by surface and the other older boys about the subject of kissing his mother. Wells asks Stephen, do you kiss your mother before you go to bed? This opens up the publication over whether he should kiss his mother or should he not. The other boys laugh at Stephens confusion while he ponders this thought. (Joyce,6) During the Christmas dinner, there is no direct reference to a relationship between Stephen and his mother. During this scene, Stephen see different sides of all the adults at the dinner. Stephens mother tries to create a peaceful Christmas dinner. She is unavailing to do this becaus e Stephens father, aunt, and uncle convey into a heated political debate. Stephen witnesses his mother get irritated over the constant arguing. She tries to stop the argument but fails to do so. Stephens feelings are not recognized in the passage. He merely well(p) observes this scene. (Joyce, 21-22) At the end of the book, it does not mention a relationship between the two but an argument they have. Stephen tells Cranly he argued with his mother about difference to church on Easter Sunday.