Art As Self-Expression In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man And Andrea del Sarto

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The novel recreates the development of a writer, one who works with words, communicates with language, but also one who understands the world and himself through his fascination with language.
In order to understand Stephen's fascination with language and how it is reflected in the novel, it is important to know the entirety of the story and thus to see how the early chapters fit into an overall development of character. The novel as a whole is clearly described by the title, which tells us that Stephen Dedalus will become an artist and that this story is about his early life as he was formed into the incipient artist. His artistry will be with words, and thus it is not surprising that his development as an artist should include a fascination with the structures and possibilities of language.
In the first chapter, we are introduced to Stephen and taken through his childhood from about age six to nine, a period in which he is enrolled at a Jesuit boy's boarding school, where he ...

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