Portrait of the Artist as a Jung Man: A Cock and Bull Story

When Ben Dollard sings the Croppy Boy half way through the day in the course of Stephen's quest for father, it is as if the old Wexford rebel song about the betrayal by the father is somehow a shattering of the dream. Not only is his own real father not who Stephen would like him to be, not who he needs him to be; he is not what any self-respecting father would want to be.…