Araby is a complicated short story as at first glance it seems to be about love. However, as you dive deeper you realize it is actually about a boy whose longing after a girl becomes an unhealthy obsession. He describes the world as gloomy and depressing with his description of the street he lives on as “conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.” The only time he sees any sort of excitement in his life is when his crush, Mangan’s sister, is around him. He said “But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.” This statement clearly shows that he is crazy about her in an extremely unhealthy way. Furthermore, in the book he gets so nervous when she asks him a simple question, whether he will go to the bazaar. The first thing he says is why can’t she go. This along with the rest of the things he does in the short story clearly shows he is obsessed with her in an unhealthy way.
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