Assuming the position of the ideal contemporary Irish reader that Joyce might have anticipated, this work argues that the main character, James Duffy, is a "spoiled priest," emotionally arrested by his guilt at having rejected the call to the priesthood. Duffy's intellectual life thereafter progresses through German idealism to eventual nihilism.
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