Araby
(An analysis on the changes the boy goes through in Araby)
James Joyce 's Araby is a well known story about a boy who wants to impress the girl he has been obsessing over for a while now. Throughout this story the boy begins to change and have mixed emotions. The boy has mixed emotions within this story and begins to have feeling for this girl. The boy changes in Araby by not only gaining some maturity, but his emotions for his friends sister deepens as well, and he comes to a realization and faces reality at the end of this story. Araby is actually a short story from a collection of stories. “Joyce based his coming-of-age tale, which he wrote in 1905, on his own experiences while growing up in Dublin in the late nineteenth century.” …show more content…
At the beginning of the story he is described as a young boy. “He and his friends play in the streets until their “bodies glowed. He begins to notice his friend’s sister and starts to act silly, following her to school and thinking about her in unlikely places.”(Taylor, 2015) This is the first change we notice from the boy, he is starting to have feeling for this girl and the first thing he wants to do after she finally acknowledges him is impress her. While the girl and boy are talking about this Bazaar which is like a huge store. Well, Mangan 's sister wishes she could go and the boy gets the idea that if he goes to the Bazaar buys her a gift that she will like him …show more content…
We experience another change with this boy at the end of Araby. He has what you could say is an epiphany about him and the girl he is trying to impress when he notices a younger gal having a conversation with two gentleman. This is when he has his epiphany. “His conversation with Mangan 's sister, during which he promised he would buy her something, was really only small talk—as meaningless as the one between the English girl and her companions.” (McGregor, 2008). He has come to realization that this thing he has with this girl is nothing special just a conversation. The boy knows now that this girl and him will never be and the lights at the bazaar turn off and that is the end of
(An analysis on the changes the boy goes through in Araby)
James Joyce 's Araby is a well known story about a boy who wants to impress the girl he has been obsessing over for a while now. Throughout this story the boy begins to change and have mixed emotions. The boy has mixed emotions within this story and begins to have feeling for this girl. The boy changes in Araby by not only gaining some maturity, but his emotions for his friends sister deepens as well, and he comes to a realization and faces reality at the end of this story. Araby is actually a short story from a collection of stories. “Joyce based his coming-of-age tale, which he wrote in 1905, on his own experiences while growing up in Dublin in the late nineteenth century.” …show more content…
At the beginning of the story he is described as a young boy. “He and his friends play in the streets until their “bodies glowed. He begins to notice his friend’s sister and starts to act silly, following her to school and thinking about her in unlikely places.”(Taylor, 2015) This is the first change we notice from the boy, he is starting to have feeling for this girl and the first thing he wants to do after she finally acknowledges him is impress her. While the girl and boy are talking about this Bazaar which is like a huge store. Well, Mangan 's sister wishes she could go and the boy gets the idea that if he goes to the Bazaar buys her a gift that she will like him …show more content…
We experience another change with this boy at the end of Araby. He has what you could say is an epiphany about him and the girl he is trying to impress when he notices a younger gal having a conversation with two gentleman. This is when he has his epiphany. “His conversation with Mangan 's sister, during which he promised he would buy her something, was really only small talk—as meaningless as the one between the English girl and her companions.” (McGregor, 2008). He has come to realization that this thing he has with this girl is nothing special just a conversation. The boy knows now that this girl and him will never be and the lights at the bazaar turn off and that is the end of