Araby is a coming of age story where the main character changes his way of thinking by the end of the story because in the beginning all he really had on his mind was the girl that he liked but because of the bazaar he ends up realizing that reality wasn’t all he thought it was. He has a crush on a girl but by the end he grows up in a way when he realizes that his imagination and reality conflict with each other. This is shown when he goes to the bazaar expecting for it to be this amazing place where he’ll find something to give to his love after she mentions that she wants to go but is unable to but when he arrives at the bazaar he ends up finding it to be a somewhat empty and lonely place with rude people. Which was nothing like he thought it would be. At the end he realizes that he wasted his time by going to the bazaar instead of having a fairy tale view of the place.
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Hi Emily, I agree. In the beginning of the short story, he was infatuated by the girl he had been crushing over. Only for reality kicked in. He went through full lengths just to get her a gift just to not get it at the end. He was upset that he had reminded his uncle that he was going at noon but then his uncle forgot and came in at 9 o’clock at night. His uncle prolonged in giving him the money that when he finally gave it to him, the place looked empty when he arrived. When he arrived too bazaar it didn’t look like he envisioned it.