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Article: Joyce's marriage cycle.(Special "Dubliners" Number)
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- Studies in Short Fiction
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- June 22, 1995
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In Stepben Hero, James Joyce's draft for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the young Stephen Daedalus asks his classmate, Emma Clery, to join him in a night of sexual frolicking, after which they would part forever. Emma, a middle-class Catholic, nationalist, young woman, is scandalized by the proposal, and, much to Stephen's disappointment, hurries away from the paramour, exclaiming, "Who do you think I am that you can speak to me like that?" The incident is the occasion of much reflection for Stephen, who discusses the proposal and refusal with his friend Lynch. Lynch complains that Stephen failed to woo Emma because he refused to use the accepted conventions of ...