epiphany

Words can't describe an epiphany. So much thought and emotion build up inside of you while you are not looking and all of a sudden it happens. The clouds clear, and on the sparkling horizon is you, plain and simple. Somehow all the chaos in life disappears and your answers are staring right back at you, be they good or bad. Such a powerful experience cannot be taken lightly especially when trying to relate this …

…meaning of this undescribable feeling, yet his descriptions are remarkable given what he is trying to put across. Think of it this way. Have you ever been in a near car collision, what is the feeling that passes through your body after you realize that you are safe. Now times that by ten. That is epiphany. And in Portrait, as well as other Joyce stories., it becomes prevalent and makes the book what it is.