In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, is Stephen the hero he presents himself as, or something less?

byis a type of novel known as a
Bildungsroman or story of the coming of age of a. Although in some cases it
can have a heroic protagonist, more typical the genre explores the interior life of sensitive,
artistic young people filled with self-doubt, anxiety, and a certain degree of
self-centeredness. Novels of this...