I believe Araby is a reflection of James Joyce own childhood. The story manipulates light and darkness as a metaphor for the conflict of fantasies and reality in the boy. Light that symbolizes hope, illusion fiction and similarly, darkness expresses pessimism, truth and realism in narrator’s dilemma. Unlike other stories, “Araby” does not use name for the characters instead a young “boy” for the main character and “Mangan’s sister” for the girl he has a crush on. The reason for this anonymity is that the author wants the reader to relate to the epiphany the boy faces in the story. We all have our moments of epiphanies when we have a crush on someone and we get our hopes so high that we imagine our lives with them for an instance but, at
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For him, the bazaar was the only opportunity to impress and win over her in order to get the same importance from the girl he had feelings for. He has always admired her and when she tells him to go to the bazaar he finally gets a chance to impress her. He even promises to bring something for her as Mangan’s sister was willing to go to the bazaar but could not. He imagines the trip of that bazaar to be the most important goal of his life where everything else for him is fading away. From the day he makes the promise to Mangan’s sister the only thing he thinks about the whole time is the trip to bazaar and he could not focus on his studies or anything else. He began to imagine and build up his high expectations of the bazaar. “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.” (9) He even reminds his uncle in the morning about going to the bazaar at night. He waits impatiently for his uncle to return home and finally he shows 9 pm (when all the shops and bazaars are about to close). He asks for money and decides to go alone he goes with the usual slow trains and runs towards the bazaar. When he reaches there he realizes the …show more content…
He was not upset with his uncle and shopkeepers but to himself as he knew he does not have revealed his feelings to anybody else and he knew nobody else can take the blame for him but he is responsible for it himself. His affection for Mangan’s sister can be compared to the feelings Clegg for Miranda in “the Collector”. They both share strong eager feelings for their love and go to extreme in their own world in order to get a chance to be with them forever. Just like the boy Clegg also wanted to talk to Miranda and be with her, “I felt I would do anything to know her, to please her, to be her friend, to be able to watch her openly, not spy on her.” (The Collector 18) But at the end of both stories the guys realized that their choices were not smart and they both regret their decisions they both realize it was not love but infatuation or passion as they find many things the girls are really awkward and irritating and they both started finding reasons to stay away from those girls. As Infatuation might lead you to do things you will regret. Infatuation is marked by a feeling of insecurity; you are excited and eager, but not genuinely happy. There are nagging doubts,
For him, the bazaar was the only opportunity to impress and win over her in order to get the same importance from the girl he had feelings for. He has always admired her and when she tells him to go to the bazaar he finally gets a chance to impress her. He even promises to bring something for her as Mangan’s sister was willing to go to the bazaar but could not. He imagines the trip of that bazaar to be the most important goal of his life where everything else for him is fading away. From the day he makes the promise to Mangan’s sister the only thing he thinks about the whole time is the trip to bazaar and he could not focus on his studies or anything else. He began to imagine and build up his high expectations of the bazaar. “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.” (9) He even reminds his uncle in the morning about going to the bazaar at night. He waits impatiently for his uncle to return home and finally he shows 9 pm (when all the shops and bazaars are about to close). He asks for money and decides to go alone he goes with the usual slow trains and runs towards the bazaar. When he reaches there he realizes the …show more content…
He was not upset with his uncle and shopkeepers but to himself as he knew he does not have revealed his feelings to anybody else and he knew nobody else can take the blame for him but he is responsible for it himself. His affection for Mangan’s sister can be compared to the feelings Clegg for Miranda in “the Collector”. They both share strong eager feelings for their love and go to extreme in their own world in order to get a chance to be with them forever. Just like the boy Clegg also wanted to talk to Miranda and be with her, “I felt I would do anything to know her, to please her, to be her friend, to be able to watch her openly, not spy on her.” (The Collector 18) But at the end of both stories the guys realized that their choices were not smart and they both regret their decisions they both realize it was not love but infatuation or passion as they find many things the girls are really awkward and irritating and they both started finding reasons to stay away from those girls. As Infatuation might lead you to do things you will regret. Infatuation is marked by a feeling of insecurity; you are excited and eager, but not genuinely happy. There are nagging doubts,