Explain the term "stream of consciousness" with reference to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Stream
of consciousness is a radical style perfected by modernist writers likeand Virginia Woolf. In
general, stream of consciousness is a style of writing that mimics the way real people think.
For the most part, people don't think in tidy, grammatically correct sentences and paragraphs;
instead, our thoughts flow together in run-on sentences and fragments, tumbling all over the
place like a "stream" of our own "consciousness." Writers have approached
the representation of this fact in many different ways. Joyce, for instance, painstakingly
wrote, edited, and rewrote his prose so that it had the appearance of...