After reading Araby, I feel like many of us could have had a similar situation like this in our life. The narrator is so full of light and positivity and that it fills his head whenever discussing Mangans sister but when life and reality actually hits him it’s always a more negative and dull mood. The narrator fantasizes about this girl and he doesn’t even know her name, he’s so infatuated with her and that’s how it is whenever you have a crush, but the feelings aren’t mutual back. All the little things he wants to do to get her attention only end up hurting him more in the end. The frustration starts to build throughout the story when things don’t go his way and this is just the reality of how life is. This disappointment and frustration that the narrator feels at the end of the story is quite a normal feeling for the people because they all have their own life to live, the Dubliners are focused on survival instead of love. The frustration really sets in at the end of the story when the narrator finally comes to the realization that this is just an illusion that he’s come up with and it won’t come true.
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2 thoughts on “Hanna Etwara Discussion 5”
You are so right Hana, we all went through a some similarity growing up. It’s funny because when i was reading it i was smiling because i remember my first crush it was embarrassing. The disappointment and anger he felt at the end i get it but it is also a sad story.
I completely agree with what you said about the feelings not being mutual back. I think that throughout the story his expectations were so high and as Mangan’s sister mentions the Bazar he was so fixated on impressing her that he wanted to buy something for her. As his uncle arrives home late his plans already started falling apart and when he got to the Bazar and saw that everything was closed the illusion of his “love” faded and he realized that the feelings wouldn’t be mutual and he was going to buy something for no reason which is why he left angry