“Araby” by James Joyce is not a love story. What is “Araby” really about?. The narrator is blinded with his obsession for his so called love for Mangan’s sister. It is not reality and only delusion obsession. This so-called ” love obsession” forces the narrator to grow up and face reality and take off his rose-colored glasses. He viewed the Bazaar as an exciting and exotic place to go like a white knight on an honorable quest to fetch something for his fair maiden, his one true love but in reality, he is not in love with her it is more of an unhealthy obsession that he bases his existence on until he finally gets to the Bazaar and is forced to take his rose-colored glasses off to see how it’s just like any other market there is nothing exciting or exotic, people are just going about their everyday life just like Mangan’s sister is and in this way the narrator has a realization and grows up and sees that he’s been delusional.
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I really like the way you interpreted your vision of the story. His obsession with Mangan’s sister definitely created some sort of delusion in his mind. It wasn’t love, but more of an infatuation, which can be scary. However with him being a young boy, thankfully he grew out of that obsession very quickly. His thoughts was not the reality he expected. He’s only human, I’m pretty sure all of us, if we haven’t already experienced some form of delusion.