Araby is a well known story about a boy who wants to impress the girl he has been obsessing over for a while now. At the beginning of the story he is described as a young boy. He begins to notice his friend’s sister and starts to act silly, following her to school and thinking about her in unlikely places.This is the first change we notice from the boy, he is starting to have feeling for this girl and the first thing he wants to do after she finally acknowledges him is impress her. Throughout this story the boy begins to change and have mixed emotions. The boy has mixed emotions within this story and begins to have feeling for this girl. The boy changes in Araby by not only gaining some maturity, but his emotions for his friends sister deepens as well, and he comes to a realization and faces reality at the end of this story.
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Teddy, this is a great overview of the story, but please try to address the prompt directly. We are analyzing the boy’s character as a way to enhance an understanding of the story’s central theme.