Social Sensitivity
It is a testament to Knowles’s ability that a story about relatively privileged young men in the 1940s, written from the perspective of the quiet, […]
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Topics for Discussion
1. How do the boys at Devon feel about the adults they know? 2. Why and how is the school and its setting important for […]
Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. What is the “separate peace” that Gene feels he has achieved? How has it affected the rest of his life? 2. Find several examples […]
Related Titles and Adaptations
In 1972 A Separate Peace was filmed by Paramount. The studio was unable to find a writer or director with the requisite cinematic genius to […]
About the Author
James Joyce was one of the most celebrated and influential English-language writers of the 20th century, and his later works of fiction, including Ulysses (1922) […]
Setting
The publication of Portrait in book form in 1916 coincided with one of the most important events in modern Irish history: the Easter Rising (also […]
Themes and Characters
Of all the characters in the novel, Stephen Dedalus is the only one whose portrait is fully realized. His most intimate thoughts, memories and sensations […]
Literary Qualities
The term “epiphany” looms large in Joyce’s earlier work, providing a helpful point of entry into both Dubliners and Portrait. The term’s roots are Greek; […]
Social Sensitivity
As a novel about a young man’s development as he tries to realize an ideal vision of himself as an artist who stands aloof from […]