LuClandereine Leger Discussion 1

I don’t feel like Araby is a love story. Usually, in love stories, the main characters confess their love for each other, get together, and fall in love. However, in Araby, none of that happens. Instead, there seems to be one-sided love from a boy, to a girl he barely interacts with. The only time when the story begins to feel like a love story, is when the main character’s crush expresses her desire to go to the bazaar, and the main character promises her a gift when he goes there himself. Then the story follows up with lots of anticipation for the main character to go to the bazaar, however, the main character ends up with all his hopes and dreams crushed. One thing I hate about this story is that we don’t get to see what happens afterwards to the main character. However, I can see that this story is indeed not a love story, but a story of a boy having a crush on a girl and then having his hopes and dreams crushed. I think that perhaps in the same way how he saw the girl as his light in a world full of darkness, the bazaar also became that light for him as well. And once the light in the bazaar went out, the same thing happened for him to that girl. With that logic, there is no longer any love between the boy and the girl so therefore, it is not a love story.