In Joyce's novel, 'A portrait of an Artist as a Young Man', he weaves the stories of his youth and his growth as a young man to tell us about who he was as an individual and the sort of life he lead. Joyce uses many techniques such as stream of consciousness to help us picture his mindset and help his audience feel the emotions he had after the certain situations of his life. In …showed first 75 words of 1998 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1998 total…to ask his 'old father' for help in whatever his future may hold. In the beginning of his life, Stephen saw no hope for the future. By analyzing his relations with his country and religion, but more importantly his family, in the end he finally grew to see hope in the world once again. Just as he grows to accept his mother country Ireland, Stephen finally looks past his father's faults and accepts him too.