STARR WHITE (ARBY BY JAMES JOYCE)

Starr White

Professor Conway

ENG 201 sec 0501

March 5th- 20TH

 

Araby is about not love but it is about a boy who likes his friend’s older sister and tries everything to impress her by buying her things and going places with her to impress her in many ways, in reality, it is about growing up and realizing. The book mentions that this boy grew up in a religious home and still doesn’t understand many things in the world, especially regarding his father’s state of being and mind. He speaks about the way they would exit from the back of the home to avoid a-lot of the people. Moral of the story the character deals with not really enjoying childhood and lives in delusion to keep him going in life, he realizes that the way he observed things are not what they seem and he things otherwise.

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