Summary of Joyce's "A Portrait of An Artists As A Young Man" 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 the novel, Joyce uses the young character Stephen as his protagonist to display the deep emotional turmoil and growth of the youth into the artist that he would become. As Stephen becomes disheartened by the way