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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Is Stephen Dedalus Really James The main debate that all critics had over this novel was whether or not Stephen Dedalus was, in fact, James Joyce. Maurice Beebe feels that Joyce, when creating Stephen, used some of his own characteristics but also tried to not make Stephen too much ....

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.... Nowhere in the novel does Joyce include his own thoughts. The character of Stephen Dedalus is revealed through only his observations and reactions to the world around him. This novel is “enclosed in a sustained symbolic pattern.” Stephen Dedalus is symbolized as “rich and many-faceted.” Critic Elizabeth Drew states that Stephen is a rebel who withdraws from Ireland, family, nationality and religion. Stephen rebels in two ways. On one level, his “ intellectual and emotional development fit him finally to.... ....