Week 5

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.