Annotation In The Dubliners

My heart was pounding so loud that I could not hear what she had told me. I had to ask her to repeat herself, and I already felt like a fool. Despite the time spent building up courage, I was already doubting myself, and my dream girl was slipping through my fingers. Similarly, In Araby, a short story in The Dubliners, by James Joyce, a young boy finds himself consumed by “confused adoration” (Joyce). The boy develops feelings for a girl he has never talked to. He spends his time trying to find ways to approach her. This adoration does not give him the courage he needs to actually speak to her. In fact, he admits to having “quickened [his] pace and passed her” out of fear (Joyce). The young boy fears rejection. This feeling is something that resounds with many others. He decides that the perfect idea is to give her a gift to show his strange feelings. He faces many obstacles along the way, eventually the young boy finds himself with his plan completely ruined. At this moment he sees himself “as a …show more content…
It continued on, and once school started I always found myself distracted in class. It was easy to get lost in thought and neglect the world around me. None of these feelings made sense to me, it was affecting me even when she wasn’t around. When she finally talked to me, it caught me off guard. I was so surprised that she had said something to me that I could not gather my thoughts together. She was trying to make jokes and I was so stunned with the situation that I could just smile in response. I had caught her attention and I blew it. Luckily for me, she gave me another chance. I started to build a relationship with her and we became good friends. Unlike the young boy in Araby, I did not stand by “looking at her” and always making sure “that i could not be seen”(Joyce). She appreciated my friendship, but to her it was nothing more. I knew I should tell her how I felt, but I feared that she would reject