Part one of term paper
...and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot As Stephen questions whether or not his repentance and devotions served the purpose of expiating his sins, he learns that the director of his school wants him to become a Jesuit priest, therefore serving as a model of ...

Part two of term paper
... is a choice between either one or the other. When Stephen elects to choose his true calling, he continues on his journey, in search of what it means to really know the solitude that he faced since his youth. As the priest talks to Stephen, Stephen remembers details of his own sins: a delicate and sinful perfume....the brittle texture of a womans stocking. He also remembers how his masters at Clongowes and Belvedere taught him christian doctrine and urged him to lead a good life and...led him ...