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Through the course of a man's life, he will continually change until he becomes himself or his true self whether through moral reconciliation or spiritual reassessment. In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, we enter the life of a young boy and travel through his experiences that shift his views drastically. It is apparent at the close of the novel that this is not exactly the cliché happy ending, but one in which we can realize a changed man and relate his journey to the one we are on. Joyce presents change through an interesting way of the variegation of one young man, Stephen Daedalus from one form to another, yet these pieces, or lessons, contribute to his whole revelation at the end of the novel.
Joyce first shows Stephen's soft memories of what it was like to be young, almost infantile in the first few sentences but by the end of the chapter he is a young, fearful servant of God, a role that beleaguers him throughout childhood. However, the end of the......

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