Portrait of the Artist -- Chapters 4 and 5

Post your comments about the last two chapters of the novel here. This would be a good place, once you've finished the book, to record your final thoughts about motifs and repeated symbols that have persisted throughout the book, and to try to formulate a theme.

Portrait of the Artist -- Chapter 3

If you have further thoughts about chapter 3 of James Joyce's A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man, please post them here.

Portrait of the Artist -- Ch. 1 and 2

If you have ideas to express about James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, please post them here. You could expand upon the class discussion, post an original comment, or respond to a classmate's blog comment. Comments on this post should focus on chapters 1 and 2 of the novel.