"Araby" by James Joyce tells a story of a young boy who is infatuated with his friends sister, despite only having one conversation involving a bazaar that she would like to attend, but cannot. The young boy promises her he will retrieve a gift for her, thinking this will woo her, but fails to do so when he is disappointed by the bazaar. The story "Araby" shows that misleading yourself with unrealistic fantasies can be ultimately, disappointing.
To begin, James Joyce tells the story from a first person point of view because the narrator experiences these events personally, and most of the story develops in the young boy's head. The author chooses this point of view, which is the narrator looking back on his childhood in first person, because …show more content…
Once the young boy speaks to the girl and agrees to go to the bazaar, he begins to romanticize the bazaar, once again, setting himself up for disappointment. After the conversation with Mangan's sister, the narrator explains, "What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wish to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read. The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me." (366) Without a first person point of view, the audience would never see that the narrator was unable to sleep in the days following or focus in school. The narrator never discloses to any other characters in the story that he is going to the bazaar for Mangan's sister, so without the first person point of view, the conflict would be impossible to write …show more content…
Without a first person point of view, the audience is unable to hear the thoughts of the narrator, and unable to understand his infatuation with Mangan's sister. The narrator looks back on his younger self and is able to disclose information his younger self may not have understood at the time, and is able to tell the story for what is really is. Which is a story about a young, clumsy boy in love that learned life is not a
To begin, James Joyce tells the story from a first person point of view because the narrator experiences these events personally, and most of the story develops in the young boy's head. The author chooses this point of view, which is the narrator looking back on his childhood in first person, because …show more content…
Once the young boy speaks to the girl and agrees to go to the bazaar, he begins to romanticize the bazaar, once again, setting himself up for disappointment. After the conversation with Mangan's sister, the narrator explains, "What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wish to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read. The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me." (366) Without a first person point of view, the audience would never see that the narrator was unable to sleep in the days following or focus in school. The narrator never discloses to any other characters in the story that he is going to the bazaar for Mangan's sister, so without the first person point of view, the conflict would be impossible to write …show more content…
Without a first person point of view, the audience is unable to hear the thoughts of the narrator, and unable to understand his infatuation with Mangan's sister. The narrator looks back on his younger self and is able to disclose information his younger self may not have understood at the time, and is able to tell the story for what is really is. Which is a story about a young, clumsy boy in love that learned life is not a