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He leaves Ireland for the Continent, in search of his artistic soul.

Finally, he vows to escape all forms of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual repression. Eventually, Stephen feels himself becoming increasingly isolated from others. Later, he is troubled when he realizes the ineffectiveness and emptiness of both Irish nationalism and Catholicism. Like many sensitive young men, Stephen is ashamed of his family's ever-strained finances. Stephen Dedalus Afflicted with poor eyesight and lacking both physical stamina and athletic prowess, Stephen develops an early, introspective, intellectual curiosity.

Most of the following characters in the novel are based on people who actually existed in Joyce's life in almost every case, he portrayed them as fictional representations of religious, social, and cultural elements of Ireland as they influenced Stephen Dedalus, a maturing, sensitive young artist. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, strictly speaking, is not an autobiographical novel, and yet in the novel, Joyce attempts to weave much of the fabric of his real life into an artful tapestry of fiction.