Joyce`s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with a father telling his son a story. And it ends with another father the same son leaves his own country to follow. Joyce`s narrative about Stephen`s formation as a (male) writer represents the silencing of the mother and the erasure of her subjectivity. It also includes the creation of the mother who exists for the discourse of the son who thereby takes his place in the symbolic order of the father. For Stephen, who compares his own country to "the old sow that eats her farrow," his exile at the end of the story may mean a repudiation of the maternal. In other words, Stephen`s leaving the mother country may be matricidal in the psychological terms. His glorious flight into the father, however, is necessarily attended with the son`s guilty consciousness toward his mother, which comes to constitute the main part of Ulysses. In short, while Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man treat a masculine appropriation of the maternal necessary for Stephen`s identity as a male artist, the story of Stephen in Ulysses is the narrative of the insistent return of the mother to the son`s consciousness. The sharp contrast of the same character in these stories may result from the differences of the narrative. Bloom`s story may be the serial to Stephen`s. As shown in the characteristics of "a new womanly man," Bloom represents `a perfect human being` for Joyce. That`s why the relationship of these two main characters matters. Although Stephen still remains caught in his paralysis in Ulysses, he shows the faintest suggestion that his encounter with Bloom may foreshadow a fertile reconciliation with his mother and a vision of being reborn as a true artist who can balance between father / sun and mother / earth.