Lynette Spears Discussion 5

“Araby” isn’t a love story, but more of a story about having high expectations and disappointment. This young boy  had such a huge crush on Mangan’s sister. Big enough to where he wanted to be around her and buy her something. She brought the bazaar up in conversation, and he envisioned it to be something grand, but only because “his crush” spoke about it. He couldn’t wait to experience such a place and upon his arrival it was nothing like he imagined. His high expectations of this place lead him into a place of disappointment because most of the bazaar was closed, it was dark, and there wasn’t many people, but that wasn’t the only time he was disappointed in the story. He was so eager to have this experience he depended on, the on time arrival of his uncle so he can give him money to go. His uncle came home late and claimed he forgot that he had to give him money. This not only disappointed the boy but it also led him to grow frustrated and angry. Nothing in his day went as planned. I grew up with the saying “do not disappoint yourself with high expectations”.