<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (November 2013) </Td> </Tr> <P> While some critics take the prose to be too ornate, critics on the whole praise the novel and its complexity, heralding Joyce's talent and the beauty of the novel's originality . These critics view potentially apparent lack of focus as intentional formlessness which imitates moral chaos in the developing mind . The lens of vulgarity is also commented on, as the novel is unafraid to delve the disgusting topics of adolescence . In many instances, critics that comment on the novel as a work of genius may concede that the work does not always exhibit this genius throughout . </P> <P> A Portrait won Joyce a reputation for his literary skills, as well as a patron, Harriet Shaw Weaver, the business manager of The Egoist . </P> <P> In 1917 H. G. Wells wrote that "one believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction," while warning readers of Joyce's "cloacal obsession," his insistence on the portrayal of bodily functions that Victorian morality had banished from print . </P>

Examine the moral dilemmas in james joyces a portrait of the artist as a young man