A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s autobiographical novel based on the first twenty years of his autobiographical novel based on the first twenty years of his life,set in Dublin in the late 19th century.Dedalus rebels against what he sees as the pervasive repressive influence of the Roman Catholic Church and the attitudes of his family and of Ireland itself.He leaves Ireland for France in order to fulfill A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce’s autobiographical novel based on the first twenty years of his autobiographical novel based on the first twenty years of his life, set in Dublin in the late 19th century. Didalus rebels against what he sees as the pervasive repressive influence of the Roman Catholic Church and the attitudes of his family and of Ireland itself. He leaves Ireland for France in order to fulfill