The following question is based on your reading of “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce. Why doesn’t Stephen play with other children at the party? Why does he not kiss the young girl who is flirting with him on the train?

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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