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...es, inadequate. Stephen describes the ball of a popular sports game his peers are playing as a “greasy leather orb”, which shows how little he fits in with the others. While in Clongowes, Stephen kept this same reputation except for one day after he had stood up to the head of the school. Stephen had finally been able to feel acceptance, and it did not strike him as something that he needed. Stephen kept doing what he enjoyed and that meant reading certain authors. At one point he was even subjected to physical abuse from a barb-wire fence from Heron, a peer of Stephen’s who often poked fun of him. Heron actually seems to be closest out of any that we know Stephen come sin contact with, and this is only because he talks to him out of jest. Unhappy as a perpetual outsider, Stephen lacks the warmth to engage in true friendship. "Have you never loved anyone?" his fellow student, Cranly, asks him. "I tried to love God," Stephen replies. "It seems now I failed." While at University, Stephen seemed to fit in much more than anywhere else. He had a small group of friends, including Cranley, and each has different abilities that Stephen realizes. Davin, who is loyal to Ireland...