 does everything that, and he's going to a religious school, he does everything that the people are asking him to do. And so it looks like, oh, well, clearly he's going to enter the priesthood. And so you have different figures, but not a lot of deep friendships. And it seems like at the end, he even breaks with his good friend, Cranley. Are we to understand our main character here, Stephen, as simply a stand-in for Joyce himself?