The ending of James Joyce's stream of consciousness Novel A Portrait of the Artist as a young man is not end but at all rather it's beginning. The book culminates in Stephen's self imposed exile from Ireland- his home,church and his past. Joyce's decision to leave home from Paris and Italy. The mind is that Stephen is not able to truly commit to his artistic calling until he has thrown his ties in the past and really experienced life as an independent person. The book ends with the confidence that he will find his artistic voice somewhere out there in the course of his wandering.
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His closing lines are,"Welcome,O life! I go to encounter for the millionth times the reality of experience and ….old father,old artificer,stand me now and ever in good stead". Stephen will attempt to express the 'consciousness of (his) race'-but ironically he has to leave his country to do so. Stephen believes that he can only reality gain clear understanding of Ireland, by looking at it objectives from a far. Finally, the Novel draws to a close by invoking Daedalus,the Greek friend from the epigraph bidding him to keep an eye out for his namesake as he leaves his homeland and ventures into the world.
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