A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

This was interesting since it was a very different kind of love that saved Stephen from the love that has been discussed in relation to some of the other books we've read. The love that saved Stephen was a love for life in the real world, one that he so longed to be a part of. Another love that saved is art. He loved art so much that "He would fall" (162). He gave up the priesthood and a life with Christ to become an artist and become a part of the real world. This love saved him from a lifetime of unhappiness. He saw the loss of light in the priest kindling the fire and found through his love of art that if he continued down the path to priesthood, he would lose his light too. Clearly, love did save Stephen although the love was different from the conventional love of a person to another person.