... himself, Stephen is the son of an impoverished father and a highly devout Catholic mother. Also like Joyce, he attends Clongowes Wood, Belvedere, and University Colleges, struggling with questions of faith and nationality before leaving Ireland to make his own way as an artist. Many of the scenes in the novel are fictional, but some of its most powerful moments are autobiographical: both the ... him, women are either pure, distant, and unapprochable, like Emma, or impure, sexual, and common, like the prostitutes he visits during this time at Belvedere. We have already seen how art seems...

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• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. First, are Western readers just plain curious about the Parsis? After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice ... likable and sometimes not, humans who grapple with spiritual questions, feelings of alienation, the terror of death, economic worries, and family friction. At least that is the way the stories appear to an outsider; of course, I am not qualified to speculate on how the Parsi reader might react. Amin Mal...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. First, are Western readers just plain curious about the Parsis? After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice ... likable and sometimes not, humans who grapple with spiritual questions, feelings of alienation, the terror of death, economic worries, and family friction. At least that is the way the stories appear to an outsider; of course, I am not qualified to speculate on how the Parsi reader might react. Amin Mal...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate