dness with such gruesome imagery has a real effect on Stephen; he repeats Dante's caution in his childish song, chanting: "Pull out his eyes, Apologize" (8). A playful, yet sensitive Stephen must immediately conform Pfeiffer 2 even his innocent unorthodox actions in fear of the threatening phantom eagles to save the consequences they will bring. His thoughts are threatened again by birds when he meets an acquaintance named Heron when walking down a dark street. Stephen immediately notes the peculiar image of Heron's "bird face as well as a bird's name"(76). Through descriptive images of Heron's "mobile face, beaked like a bird's" and his "close-set prominent eyes which were light and inexpressive," Joyce enables the reader to not only envision his birdlike characteristics but also adds insight to Stephen's thoughts toward his unchaste peers (76). Heron taunts Stephen, sardonically naming him a "model youth" who "doesn't flirt and doesn't damn anything or damn all" (76). This blatant remark by the bird-like boy is an obvious verbal threat to Stephen's character. Continued as Heron and his friend viscously chide Stephen for his admiration for Byron's poetry, Joyce's bird imagery bears in this scene a restraint of Stephen's uniqueness by threatening his self-expression. As Stephen mentally deve

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