Walter A Macancela Week 5 Discussion

This story revolves around a boy and recounts his disappointment. The boy falls in love with the older sister of his friend. To get her attention, he looks for gifts for her in the Araby market. The first part of the story takes place in and around the narrator’s home on the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland. At the end of the story, the action moves to a street market on the city side. The narrator of the story is a young man who attends a nearby school. Across the street lives Sister Mangan, the sister of the narrator’s friend. She is a girl. The narrator falls in love with Mangan’s sister, and this love drives the plot of the story. Finally, although the narrator does not detail his private life. his life, we know that he lives with his aunt and his uncle. You can see that one of the topics covered in the story is religion and Catholicism. As the story progresses, the narrator can be seen surrounded by Catholic characters. I have also attended a Catholic school. Catholicism played an important role in his upbringing. He also thought of Mangan’s sister in religious terms and images. He is fully associated with Catholicism. The story is about coming of age as the young man is shown to mature. However, before all these points of view come into conflict when he begins to adore Mangan’s sister and, after falling in love with this girl, he thinks that her studies of her are useless. The narrator’s infatuation and distraction with Sister Mangan suggest that his beliefs are weak. Clearly, the young man has no idea what love is since he was so blinded by adoring Magan’s sister and in the end he managed to realize it.