1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
Chapter 1

2. The source of the speaker and the function of the narrative
Literature begins as an art form: a fractured fairy tale
Intentionally fractured for the reader to complete without authorial guidance
Speaker's voice: tells of Stephen's experiences, but not his conscious mind, and has a sense of his feelings
Speaker uses diction appropriate to stephen's age at the time of the flashback; hence, one notes his maturation process

3. Themes Explored
The roles of family, Catholicism and nationalism in the formation of identity
None of these are very developed
Mimics Stephen's experience as a forming character

4. Clongowes Wood College
Jesuit university
Stephen homesick and disoriented
Reacts to environment like an “artist”(5)
Frustrated as he is ridiculed
Wells asks him if he kisses his mother- no answer is "right" (6)
Wells pushes him into muddy water in a ditch and Stephen does not “peach" on him- keeps the schoolboy code (7)

5. Christmas Dinner Scene (16-26)
Deceptively upbeat tone
Stephen sitting at the adult table- outbreak of bitter argument about Parnell and adultery (19-22)
Aunt Dante takes the Catholic stance against the adultery he committed
Stephen’s father and Mr. Casey are supporters (25)
Ends in men crying and the woman leaving table yelling her opinion: “God and religion before everything! Dante cried. God and religion before the world!” (25)
Stephen questions whether family, church and nationalist movement can be trusted

6. Moral Triumph
"Smugging" incident takes place: not defined and Joyce leaves ambiguous on purpose (28)
Discipline is strengthened and Stephen, whose glasses have been broken, is pandied by the prefect (34)
Stephen and classmates feel the injustice
Stephen visits the reverend John Conmee to complain and he is triumphant (39-40)
Social institutions can bring order to one's life
Signals development of Stephen's identity