He is an easy target for bullies, and one day he is pushed into a cesspool. He is very young, terribly homesick, un-athletic and socially awkward. We leap forward in time to see young Stephen beginning boarding school at Clongowes. The book opens with stream of consciousness narrative filtered through a child's perspective there is sensual imagery, and words approximating baby talk. Their Uncle Charles also lives with the family. When Stephen is young, he and the other Dedalus children are tutored by the governess Dante, a fanatically Catholic woman. Throughout the novel, the Dedalus family makes a series of moves into increasingly dilapidated homes as their fortunes dwindle. Young Stephen Dedalus comes from an Irish Catholic family he is the oldest of ten children, and his father is financially inept. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man takes place in Ireland at the turn of the century.
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