 He's having nursery rhymes said to him, and at the very end of the novel, he is going to forge the smithy of his race. He's going to create it all himself. Talking with Dr. Dutton Carney, Associate Professor of English here at Hillsdale College, about Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the James Joyce book. What does this work tell us about the way in which identity arises, and what shapes us and makes us the way that we are?