“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.
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Hello Kamol, I agree in the words used to describe the boy. he went down a path where he wandered and hoped for an outcome that seemed out of the picture. His almost obsession like behavior stirred him down this path until he finally realized everything is not what it seems. He was very lost I would say keeping her on his mind for days at a time and then when it was finally time to face the truth it ended in disbelief and anger. It leaves a lingering question thinking was it worth it.