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?

Fitzgerald describes eleanor as being amory’s last “weird” love woman mystery relationship

Ipronounced his name, offering him at the same time my hand: he took it, smiling and saying, “we shall do very well by-and-by.” then he laid me down, and addressing bessie, charged her to be very careful that i was not disturbed during the night. having given some further directions, and intimates that he should call again the next day, he departed; to my grief: i felt so sheltered and befriended while he sat in the chair near my pillow… (chapter 3) this passage, in which jane first meets the doctor, is an example of

Lines 9-12 compare the "ashes of youth" to a deathbed twilight fire youth