For sure. It was designed that way. Not easy to do though. Honestly, I think the portrait is a much better book for most people.

So much is relavent today from Ulysses. I'd say the main theme is "usurpers in my father's house", Stephen's anger and the invading occupiers. But then his realization that his own ego was the cause of the anger. Then assimilating that into an epiphany type event...