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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Commentary

Passage: Page 248: "-You made me confess the fears that I have…" – Page 249: "Cranly did not answer."

In this passage, Stephen is saying how Cranly has made him confess all of his fears to him, but then he tells Cranly what he does not fear. Stephen tells Cranly that he does not "fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever" he has to leave. Stephen has gone through several stages in his life, and now that he has gone through all of those stages, he feels that he needs to go further into himself to try to discover his real self. Stephen also mentions to Cranly that he is "not afraid to make a mistake, even a big mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too." This shows that Stephen feels that making mistakes is fine because in the end, he will learn from his mistakes.
Meanwhile, Cranly repeats the word "alone" twice to try to enforce the word to Stephen and make sure that the......

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