How does Joyce use stream of consciousness to describe Stephen's rejection of the priesthood?

Stephen's words and thoughts are clear and concise. The stream of conciousness allows us to see into the man and know exactly what he is thinking.

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my Church; and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow my self to use, silence, exile and cunning.

The novel A portrait of the artist as a young man is a semi autobiographical novel by the greatest Irish nationalist , novelist, and writer James Joyce. His novel also refers Irish nationalism by the various types of view point. This novel based on stream of consciousness technique, is a significant and important technique of writing and presenting the society. By the technic the writer shows a intellectual thought, feeling and changing identify of a person. Stephen Dedalus is a hero of the novel who who takes a long journey from boyhood to adulthood through a large of soial and religious problems. James Joyce also tries to suggest how a man sacrifices his religion and country to become a writer as well as Artist. Thus the stream of consciousness technique is used in the protagonist of Dedalus