“Araby”, by James Joyce, is a short story about a boy who falls in love with his friend’s sister. They don’t know each other too well, but the boy thinks about her constantly and eventually asks him if she wants to go to Araby, a bazaar, with him. She tells him that she is unable to go with him, so the boy says he’ll go to the bazaar by himself and get her something in hopes of impressing her. Determined to win her over, he heads off to the bazaar arriving there later than he expected. When he gets there, the bazaar is nothing like he expected. The place was dark, nearly all the stalls were closed and he felt out of place. By the end of the story, he fails to buy her a gift. The lovestruck boy experiences a disappointment so overwhelming that the narrator loses his innocence because of his love interest and the bazaar, which was a movement from childhood to adulthood for him.
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