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In the story, “Araby”, the main character can be viewed as a romantic, but impulsive individual. Having a romantic personality led to him having some unrealistic expectations. He grows an attraction towards the sister of his friend, Mangan. Sensitivity seemed like a personality trait as well, based off the way he acted around the girl. He wants to buy a gift for her, rushes to do so, but eventually ends up disappointed. He wanted to get her a gift just so she could like him back, but it’s not that easy, is it? With that being said, he eventually realizes that his feelings were just short-lived and based off a fantasy in his head. It was just physical attraction, nothing more. He also realized that he was just being impulsive and that although all these thing are normal for a young man, he was ready to head into the adulthood chapter of his life.

The Boy in the story “Araby” By James Joyce in my eyes would be described as naive,imaginative,romantic,in love. The reason I say these words is because his attraction towards his friend (neighbor) sister is what makes him do what he does throughout the article. To the point where he has created an imaginative world in his mind where he and she are united. I should say he is also idealistic because it is reflected in his imagination with an exotic place called bazaar “Araby” which he has been so excited to visit. This impacted the ending because of his love for his friend’s sister as he daydreams of romantic scenarios will drop when arrives at the bazaar. Upon arrival he is let down and faced with realization as the bazaar was nothing like he imagined it to be. Also not being able to find a suitable gift brings hopes down even more. He realizes that his romantic idealism was misplaced.

The short story” Araby’ by James Joyce is about a young boy who lives in Dublin, Ireland that is experiencing life and has developed a liking for his friend’s sister and he vows to get her a present at Bazaar. Some phrases to define this character in the story include amusing and readily swayed, as well as optimistic as he arrives at Bazaar seeing as a young kid your naivety can definitely give us different views on things. but he discovers that it is not what he imagined. Learning to realise that things don’t always turn out as anticipated fact that he had idealized a major amount of what would happen makes him unhappy and dissatisfied because of how he saw it and what he had in mind. He could essentially demonstrate how young children perceive the world as something vast and available for them to enjoy and explore with their innocence.

In the story “Araby,” the boy is about 12 years old and has a crush on a girl who lives across the street. He spends a lot of time daydreaming about her and imagines himself as a brave knight who will win her heart. One day, the girl mentions that she would like to go to the Araby bazaar, a market that sells exotic goods. The boy sees this as an opportunity to impress her by buying her a gift at the bazaar. He becomes very excited and starts making plans to go. However, he has to wait until his uncle comes home to give him money for the bazaar. When his uncle finally arrives, it is already late and many of the stalls are closing. The boy rushes to find a gift for the girl, but he is too late and most of the good items have already been sold. Feeling disappointed and disillusioned, the boy realizes that his romantic ideas and dreams were not realistic. He sees the bazaar as a symbol of his lost innocence and the harsh reality of the adult world. He understands that he can never go back to his childlike beliefs and that he must face the challenges of adulthood.

In the story “Araby” by James Joyce is the story of a boy who becomes attracted to his friend’s sister. and become easily influenced and almost obsessed with them. Some of the words that I would use to describe the boy in the story are, hopeful, absent minded, and obsessive. He was very hopeful as he thought someday, he might end up with her. This also draws in on him being obsessives as on the bottom paragraph of the first page it state “Every morning I lay on the floor parlor watching her door.  Even the boy being so absent minded was cause by his attraction to this girl. He started to answer few questions in class and his master thought he was beginning to idle. This affects what happens to the boy in the end because he thinks everything he did up to this point was useless as he now knows the girls works there.

“Araby” by James Joyce is a short story about a young boy that falls in love with his friend’s sister and tries to buy her a gift from a bazaar, basically another word for market. some words to describe this boy would be naive, romantic, infatuated, imaginative, idealistic, disillusioned. His character affects what happens at the end because he realizes that bis love was based on a fantasy and illusion, and he feels angry and ashamed of himself. The boy’s infatuation brought him to dote on this so intensely that he’d watch her from his window, waiting for the very moment she’d come into his eye view just to catch a glimpse of her, shameful of the possibility of the getting caught doing so. His infatuation with this girl also brought on a level of impatience and fear of the idea of not being able to retrieve this gift for her, in this aspect he isn’t alone when it comes to love we find ourselves doing strange and unreasonable things.

In “Araby” by James Joyce, I would describe the narrator as naive. The narrator became obsessive over his crush and began to devote his days into winning her love by any means necessary. The narrator describes his mental state as unable to focus when he says, ” I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire” (Joyce paragraph 12). This affects the character in the end because he goes to the bazaar in order to look for a gift for his crush and he becomes disillusioned after realizing that he couldn’t find anything good to buy. This is what makes the narrator naive, because he believes that he can buy his lover’s love when love between two people should be based on the connection versus the materialistic. The narrator comes into age after experiencing his first disappointment in life, which is love, and this affects him because in the end, he sees himself as “ creature driven and derided by vanity” (Joyce 37). This affects the narrator because now he feels like his chance of winning his crush is over due to the masculine pressure to provide, which he failed to do. 

The boy in the story is a young boy who is mesmerized by his friends sister. His friends sister is so beautiful that the young boy gets a crush on her after the first sight and he is eager to talk to her and impress her in an attempt to win over her love. The boy in the story eager to win over the love of his crush goes to a bazaar for her because she cant go herself. At the bazaar the boy tries to buy flowers or something nice for a young lady and he is determined to achieve his goals but his plans are ruined by his drunk uncle who comes home late right before the bazaar closes. The boy is determined to  go to the bazaar for his crush but since its closed at the end of the story he did not reach his goals and he is upset mainly because his uncle forgot about his plans this leave the determined in love boy to storm off from the bazaar empty handed because he arrived too late to purchase anything for his crush.

The boy in the story seems to be dealing with “love at first site” or what he thinks is love. I would describe him as determined, passionate, and easily influenced. He was so fascinated with a girl who he only exchanged very few words with and he didn’t know why. While he wasn’t mature yet, I feel like he was on the right track to be because he was aware that he didn’t know why he felt so in love with her. He felt obligated to bring her something from the bazaar, possibly thinking that a gift may be the way to win her love rather than just speaking to her. When his uncle forgot he wanted to go to the bazaar and came home late, he was upset but still very determined to go. When he ended up going late and not buying anything, he was angry and defeated. The bazaar seemed to be closing and he couldn’t find anything to buy for his crush. I think he was angry at his uncle, but at himself too for thinking it was a good idea in the first place.