“Araby” is really about a coming of age boy who realized the distinction about the fantasies he builds up in his own head and the distinction of reality of said thing he is imagining, in this case the bazaar Mangan’s sister describes to him. He has built up such a version of Mangan’s sister and purely believes anything she recommends is good come to find out expectations versus reality are not the same. His expectations of the description of the bazaar his crush gave him were not the same of what he experienced at the bazaar, Granted, he did come at night when everything was closing up, but he still becomes disappointed with the revelation of what’s left at the bazaar and how the girl at the stand treats him when he is just trying to find something for his crush. He ends up leaving empty handed and having the bazaar basically close and not getting a good look at anything really because it’s so late.
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Hi Angela, I agree with your point that “he has built up such a version of Mangan’s sister.” This is a young boy with delusions of love, and he has built up this image of Mangan’s sister despite never interacting with her and only watching her from afar. He has expectations based off of his child-like bright and broad imagination, but it ends with him in the darkness and solitude of adulthood.
Hi, Angela, I very much agree with you because imagination can backstab people just like what it did to Araby, he still owns the world imagining all the good aspects of her, but when way facing reality it breaks the mirror, sometimes having a good wonderland can be good. But however the world doesn’t run the way you thought would be, your not the MC, things won’t come to you if you don’t do anything.