the story. In literature, it is all too often that characters live only in

the jaded voice of the author and never truly develop as their own, or are

not strongly opinionated in a manner which contrasts the opinions of the

writer. It is also unfortunately true that the women depicted in most

male-authored literature do not often sound realistic, or how most women

one would speak to in the course of the day tend to sound. All too often,

women are depicted on a lower level of speech than men. For instance,

Dickens and Arthur Miller both apparently subscribed to this notion, as the

women in their stories were usually more passive, and not as elaborate as

men in their speech, however, James Joyce did not see things in the same

light. The most developed female character in Joyces A Portrait of the

Artist as a Young Man, is one who speaks with dignity, passion, and the

female tact which is all too often ignored in the ch aracters of women.

Joyce's Dante Riordan's words and thoughts are true to those of literate

Although a short-lived character in Portrait, Dante Riordan, in a

nineteenth and early to present twentieth century, changed this philosophy,

their duty to teach, warn, and direct their flocks. According to the

have an instinctive shrinking from coarse and gross expressions and a

men. As Dante continues her conversation, she quotes the Bible in response

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