Week 5 Discussion

“Araby” by James Joyce is the reflection of a boy when he was younger, he was infatuated with the girl that lived across the street, Mangan’s sister.  His expectation was set high until reality kicked in. This young boy grew up in an environment where he wasn’t being paid enough attention in my opinion. His uncle was a drunk and he was filled with loneliness. His loneliness led him to be in lust with Mangan’s sister. The narrator describes his obsession with her, how “the girls name was like a summons to all his foolish blood and how his body was like a harp and her words and gestures are like fingers running upon wires.” With this obsession he started to believe he was in love and wanted her more and more. One day he went to her home, and she asked if he was going to attend the bazaar, named Araby. She expressed to him how much she wanted to go but couldn’t because she must attend an event for her covent. Upon him going to her doorstep his intentions were never to ask about the bazaar because he didn’t even know it existed or what it was. He only decided to go because she shared how much she really wanted to go, so he decided this was a way to get her. He told Mangan’s sister that he will go and bring her back a gift from it. His obsession with her became an obsession with getting her a gift, especially getting it from the bazaar. At this point his obsession made him forget about his schoolwork and he couldn’t wait to go to the bazaar to get her a gift. His uncle was supposed to give him money for the gift but on the day of the […]

A Coming of age story “Araby” written by James Joyce,  gives a glooming dark, and dreary setting taking place in Dublin, Ireland during the early 20th Century. Revealing a stricken, poverty place by the Catholic Church. In the passage, a young boy is narrating, as if it is being told from a distance of adulthood from a child’s perspective. An example is his main focus on Megan’s sister. The young boy with his uncle and aunt, which there are no thoughts of his parents in the passage. This gives the readers thought of the narrator’s character development as despondent through his childhood. Yet, the development alternates as soon Megan’s sister appears from his view. Joyce wanted to depict this in his passage so the audience can know the rise of the fantasization from the young boy and how it is portrayed in Araby.

Araby By James Joyce is really about growing up and learning how to love and treat others in the reading it speaks about a child from Ireland who is involve with a girl who lives across the street from him so through out the story he tries to get to know the girl as much as he can and get close to her so he tries to find any way possible to get closer to her. Later on in the story she mentions to him about attending a bazaar so he uses this moment and says to himself that he will attend the bazaar as well but he ends up going by himself and decides to bring her a small gift back to try and win her over. This reading introduces ways of respecting one another and how relationships should really be so that people in relationships do not get into bad encounters.

Araby by James Joyce comes off as speaking about several themes throughout the narrative. At first I thought it was about a child with. crush on a woman in his neighborhood. Then later on I thought the narrator was actually a dog that was in love with another neighboring dog. Being liberated and hearing the cries of his companions standing in for a human in the house letting him leave the room and the other dogs playing in the street respectfully. Finally at the end it left me with the feeling that the narrator died at the end, the carriage taking him to the after life and the two pennies he had representing the coins left on the closed eyelids of the deceased. The “brown figure cast by my imagination” comes accross as a version of death being seen in the darkness. Along with the twists and turns this story was a confusing one for myself I will admit.

“Araby” by James Joyce is a story that details how obsession can warp one’s view of reality and mindset as a whole. We can first see an example of the narrator’s obsession in the line, “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door” (Joyce 1). This explains how the narrator even watches over her while she cannot notice him. Due to this occurring on a daily basis, it can be assumed that the narrator has some sort of feeling for his friend’s sister. This leads him to try and buy her something from the bazaar in order to gain her favor. His mind takes her infatuation with the bazaar and manipulates it in order to help him fixate on that one specific goal. In the end, he is disappointed when he realizes the bazaar does not meet his expectations, which allows him to come to an understanding that he wasted his own time.

In the story “Araby” by James Joyce some people may think it isn’t a love story but I think it may be one because of how the narrater tries to explain to the reader how the woman in the photo associated with the light is making the boy infatuated with her, He goes on saying that with all his descriptions of her she is edged in almost holy light meaning she looks like an angel. I also noticed that the narrater was asking a lot of questions which makes me think about what type of story this is. Now that I’m thinking about it I think that the narrater is of that old age and now is thinking about life and is now questioning himself. In the beginning he would tell you to keep an eye out for these things like the neighborhood and the house the nameless narrater lives in.

James Joyce’s Araby seems almost simplistic, with the story of a boy falling in love with a girl living across the street being the main plot. Describing the main character’s journey from hope to disappointment, “Araby” seems to convey the meaning of a coming of age story, namely, the process of growing up and learning to accept bitter disappointment. As a result, at the end of the novel, the fleeting sense of excitement that captures the eliding character is replaced with the experience of loss and the ultimate learning that comes with its acknowledgment. Therefore, the process of growing up and accepting disappointment lies at the core of the story.  

The story “Araby” is a short story  which is written by James Joyce. The story is about a young religious boy who falls in love with his friend Mangan’s sister. His friend’s sister and him don’t talk much but He’s obsessed with her. He would feel and do anything to make her happy. When he does daily activities he begins to think like more about the girl he loves. The boy is scared to express his true feelings to her because he barely knows or talks to her. Mangan’s sister announces she couldn’t attend the trip to Araby due to her going to a retreat at her school. The boy took this opportunity to attend the Araby for the girl he wanted to impress her with a gift. When arriving at the Araby the boy felt disappointed with what he saw and wasn’t able to buy her anything. The author uses situational irony when showing how the narrator envisioned Arabys to be this amazing place to gift the girl with an item but in reality, it was the opposite of what he expected. In the end, the message of this story is about the coming of age and becoming an adult. The boy started seeing things for what they truly are instead of what he fantasized about. He realized his mistaken belief of love was false and began rethinking his love for Mangan’s sister when being left alone in the bazaar.  

This short story “Araby” by James Joyce wasn’t really a love story because in this story it is more of a narrative talking about Araby to the audience than third person view in a way that gives the reader confusion at first. But it opens with his own information age, place, and etc… as the narrative talks us about Araby, but it also Araby himself tells us about the story. As the story goes in the narrative starts to describe to us the girl he loves, but also in a way that Araby was just looking at her and following her footsteps like a protector “We waited to see whether she would remain or go in and if she remained, we left our shadow and walked up to Mangan’s steps resignedly.” Also, he described  Mangan’s sister in a very detailed way showing the audience that he loves her. To be honest I don’t get the story.

“Araby” is a short story written by James Joyce. “Araby” is not about love story. “Araby” is really about a young boy who come from Ireland. The story opens with the narrator’s description of his home and neighborhood, in which we first see Joyce’s use of the close first-person narrator to convey the full sensory range of sensory detail like, sights, smells, colors, textures that comprise the setting. However, the action doesn’t begin in earnest until Mangan’s sister appears on the doorstep of her house, and the narrator begins to describe his obsession with her. It is an obsession with Mangan’s sister.The narrator falls in love with Mangan’s sister, a love that drives the plot of the story. Finally, we learn that the narrator lives with his uncle and aunt, despite the fact that the narrator does not go into detail about his personal life. The uncle and aunt, appear in the narrative, but the uncle plays the most important role in the storyline since he prevents the narrator from making it to the bazaar on time.

“Araby” by James Joyce is about growing up and loving. The scene is 20th century Dublin, Ireland, about a boy who lives in North Richmond Street and lives with his uncle and aunt. The author contrasts dark and light as a metaphor to show how the boy’s surroundings were full of bleakness, and this one girl he likes is the only light in his life. He thinks about her obsessively and believes himself to be in love with her. She asks if he is going to Araby, which is a bazaar. Since she can’t go due to prior commitments, he offers to buy her something from Araby if he goes to the bazaar. He also became obsessed with going to Araby to purchase a gift to win her favor. He fantasized about just how splendid a place this bazaar was and couldn’t wait to go there. Later in the story, when the day finally arrives, he asks his uncle for money to go to Araby. Still, unfortunately, his uncle was preoccupied with drinking and came home really late, so he arrived at Araby late. Unfortunately, most of it was already closed by the time he arrived, and the people at the stall that he visited were less than friendly. He also did not see anything he wanted or could afford to buy at the booth, and his disillusionment was complete. This moment is when the character grows up as he learns a painful lesson about being blinded by love and no longer believing something to be more wonderful than it is.

“Araby” by James Joyce is a coming of age story, not a love story. The narrator’s love-like obsession with one of his friends’ sister is nothing but a tool, a channel for his maturing. The love does not come to be and by the end of the story it loses its significance to the narrator, as he gains understanding of his driving force being not love but narrow-mindedness. As he is exposed to experiences that grant him insight into the real world that is often sad, unfair, lonely, dirty, unfriendly and not only mesmerizing and beautiful, he realizes how simple-minded he has been by allowing his obsession to take up so much of his life. He is disappointed in himself not for loving someone but for allowing it to take over his life and urge him to make unreasonable decisions.

“Araby” by James Joyce is a story about a young boy who finds himself in a profound and confusing adoration with his neighbor, described as “Mangan’s sister”. And how this obsessive passion became the main source for his desperate attempts to show his feelings for the so divine girl.  When they spoke for the first time, the boy promised to bring her a gift from the Araby bazaar, known as being a splendid place, since she could not go for herself due to a retreat happening on her convent at the same time. However, due to the intense nature of the boy’s feelings, he becomes obsessed with the chance to impress her somehow.  Later, already at the bazaar by himself, after the disappointment of having to wait for his drunk uncle to come home and take him to the station, the boy finds out that most of the stalls are already closed and the darkness took place in the walls of the place. That is the moment when he realizes his own vanity intentions, and let himself feel anger for it.  

In the short story “Araby” the story is really about a young boy who seems bored and lets his life become consumed with the idea of an unattainable girl. Throughout the story he speaks of the town as an empty and kind of gloomy place until he lays his eyes on his friends sister. The only time light is really mentioned is when it involves his times near her, I think this symbolizes his interest and curiosity in this beauty. Nothing else in the town has his interest, everything is dull to him except this girl. Once she speaks to him and he promises to get her a gift he is faced with realty. He tries to obtain something glamorous and impressive to show his worth but he realizes that the options left after waiting for his turn are not at all what he had in mind. All the options in the store as well as his discouraging ride there left him disappointed. In the end he is reminded and left frustrated with his environment, the girl was just a distraction for him.

“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.

“Araby” by James Joyce is a story about a boy whose life is dreary and void of joy and human connection. When describing the street on which the boy lives, the narrator mentions the “dark muddy lanes”, the “dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits” and the “dark odorous stables”. This paints a very bleak world for the boy and he becomes fascinated with things associated with light and color. He fantasizes about things that seem exotic, outside of the cold, dim life he knows. Mangan’s sister becomes the focus of his attention and thinks of her constantly, always picturing her in light or color. He then begins to think of Araby in this same fashion and obsesses about attending the bazaar.   We also learn that the boy lives with his aunt and uncle, which gives the impression that he may have been orphaned or abandoned.  Very few characters in the story have names, especially those closest to him, such as his aunt and uncle, the girl that he is infatuated with, and even the boy himself. This shows that he is possibly lonely and not connected to others in a close, meaningful sense.   By the end of the story, the boy has a grim realization that going to Araby was not the exciting experience for which he had been hoping. The conclusion of the story creates a very sad feeling of a young man yearning for some light, love or happiness in his life, but who is met with disappointment and regret for being hopeful.

The story “Araby” by James Joyce is about a young man who is obsessed and desperate with his neighbor, he wouldn’t speak to the young girl but when he had the chance to talk to her, he was timed, the young girl approached him and sparked a conversation about Araby bazaar and that wasn’t able to go because of a trip that week but would’ve loved to visit, the boy tells her that if he goes he will “get her something” (11) and this is where his desperation came out, it was like if he needed to get her something from the bazaar, and after going through some trouble to get there, he managed to get there and unfourtanly after getting there late, he looks at a few vases and from the workers tone of voice in how he was approached asking if he wanted to buy something, the young boy replies “no thank you” (34)  and evenually walks away disappoined from the lack of money he had, not being able to get her something, and the visit to bazaar.

When answering the question, ” “Araby” by James Joyce is not a love story. What is “Araby” really about?”, many things come to mind.  Though there are many take aways throughout the coming of age story, the main thing you begin to realize throughout the story is how his obsession with the Mangan’s sister blinds every other aspect in his life.  I believe this story is about how one’s judgement and how they can perceive things are clouded by what they may think is their first love.  However, this obsession continues to grow as he grows older and he no longer focuses on the things he used to love, like his family (being impatient and angry with his uncle) and playing with his friends in the street.  As he continues to gain progress in his goal of winning the Mangan’s sister over, he is met with a humbling experience at the bazaar.  This leads me to believe that the author is choosing to highlight the fact that the boys growing obsession blinds him from reality.  This point can be drawn when the author states “I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days.” [12}.  Portraying that as he has the bazaar to look forward to, his days between then are a just a nuisance.

Compared to his other words, James Joyce’s “Araby” seems almost simplistic, with a touching yet fairly straightforward story of a boy falling in love with a girl living across the street being the main plot. However, while the love story is placed at the forefront and emphasized strongly, the true meaning of “Araby” remains hidden under layers of the specified storyline. Describing the main character’s journey from hope to disappointment, “Araby” seems to convey the meaning of a coming-of-age story, namely, the process of growing up and learning to accept bitter disappointment. The ability to reconcile with a specific feeling of loss, be it the failed relationship or another kind of disappointment, becomes apparent as the essential message of the story as the lot progresses. Namely, as the character realizes his futility in building relationships with Araby, he experiences a series of conflicting emotions: “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity” (Joyce par. 37). Thus, Joyce proves the need for self-introspection as a part of entering adulthood and reconciling with loss. Despite the short story ending with the protagonist experiencing anger, Joyce leaves enough room for further character growth and the eventual acceptance of the change. Despite the love story being at the center of Joyce’s “Araby,” the core meaning of the story appears to lie in a more somber message of learning to accept disappointment as a part of becoming an adult. The specified idea is conveyed as the plot unravels, allowing the reader to follow the kaleidoscope of emotions that the protagonist experiences. As a result, at the end of the novel, the fleeting sense of excitement that captures the eliding character is replaced with the experience of loss and the ultimate learning that comes with its acknowledgment. Therefore, the process […]

This story was really beautiful. It is not a love story, it’s more of the story of a young boy infatuated with a girl. I think in order for something to be a love story, the efforts and feelings need to be reciprocated, and this young woman barely knows he exists. He’s obsessed with her, and obsessed with the idea of getting her to actually pay him any mind, hence the want to go to this bazaar. And I even think, ultimately, if he had gotten her something at the bazaar, he would’ve still had that sinking feeling in his stomach, because she probably would not have cared that much.

Araby is the story of a young boy of the catholic faith.  This young boy story takes place near Dublin, Ireland.  He is starting to mature and feels he is in love with his friend’s older sister.  He is infatuated with her and starts going to Araby market to buy her gifts to woo and entice her.  This young man finds himself thinking this is true love and giving her gifts will have her fall in love with him. throughout this story he never mentions her name. The Araby market or bazar he goes to so he can buy her a gift is nothing like he dreamed it would be.  The market was flat and nothing worth buying there for this girl.  He becomes disappointed and reality sets in the place is nothing.  There are so many aspects to this story, and they all come from the beginning of his obsession with her. His holding her to that of a holy light, being the most beautiful girl or woman, he ever seen. This story exposes his fantasy about how he realizes the are true life.

“Araby” is a story about a young boy that is in love with a little girl. Araby tries to show how much he likes this girl by impressing her in many ways. he’s literally obsessed with the girl because he is going out of his way to do things for her. Once he heard that his crush wanted to attend the bazaar, but she couldn’t because she was about to attend school. He also made it his business and tries to bring her a gift from the Dublin bazaar. which is a way of him thinking that would make the girl notice him because he wanted to get her something that she wanted. He was trying so hard to impress the girl and things just didn’t go his way, and he was very disappointed in his uncle due to the fact that he was supposed to come home early and give him some money, which didn’t happen led to the boy into disappointment.

“Araby” is not a love story, it is a story about a boy’s fantasy about being in love. The young narrator is infatuated with the idea of Mangan’s sister, but not enough to actually flesh her out as an actual person, but as a two-dimensional being to be admired. Thus, throughout the entire text, he does not refer to her by name once, instead only referring to her as her identity as Mangan’s sister. “Araby” is a coming-of-age story, through which the young narrator passes through a dark, lonely path and goes on a journey, to return changed and wiser. He becomes disillusioned, or rather, following the theme of light and dark, enlightened, as to the realities of his delusions of love and the grandeur of the bazaar. Arriving at the end, when stalls are closing and the lights go out, his childish dreams come to an end as well.

“Araby” by James Joyce is about a young boy and his wasted efforts towards his desires in expressing his love towards Mangan’s sister. He lets his imagination run wild, creating fantasies knowing reality was just one blink of an eye away. When they have one of their first conversations, they talk about the bazaar. Mangan’s sister states that she is unable to attend the bazaar Araby due to a retreat she had that week in her convent. Here, the narrator gets a very thoughtful idea; he decides to go to the bazaar and buy her something himself. Time after time again, he lets his uncle know that he wants to attend the bazaar, doing all that he possibly can to help him remember that he desires to go. The young boy is exhilarated about his plan. As the night approached, he waited for his uncle to arrive because he forgot to give him money. At last, he arrives and finally is able to give him money to go to the bazaar. Once he approached it, he was utterly disappointed. This was because it was already late, and a lot of the shops were already closed. Defeated, he gazed in anguish and anger.

“Araby” is a short story written by James Joyce. The story is about a young religious boy who falls in love with his friend Mangan’s sister. His friend’s sister and him don’t talk much but He’s obsessed with her. He would do anything to make her happy. When he does daily activities he begins to think about the girl. The boy is scared to express his true feelings to her because he barely knows. Mangan’s sister announces she couldn’t attend the trip to Araby due to her going to a retreat at her school. The boy took this opportunity to attend the Araby for the girl to impress her with a gift. When arriving at the Araby the boy felt disappointed with what he saw and wasn’t able to buy her anything. The author uses situational irony when showing how the narrator envisioned Arabys to be this amazing place to gift the girl with an item but in reality, it was the opposite of what he expected. In the end, the message of this story is about the coming of age and becoming an adult. The boy started seeing things for what they truly are instead of what he fantasized about. He realized his mistaken belief of love was false and began rethinking his love for Mangan’s sister when being left alone in the bazaar.   

“Araby” by James Joyce is about a young boy who we do not know the age of, being infatuated by his friends’ sister.  He is always on the lookout for her and watches her whenever he is able to. He watches her by the window and thinks of her very highly. I believe that he associates her with a bright light whenever seeing her. She eventually talks to him and the bazaar came up. She really wanted to go but could not because of a retreat she has to attend. He says that he will go and buy her something. Now, he feels like it is his mission to go to this beautiful bazzar and get her something. The night of, his uncle had forgotten to give him money because he was drunk but he ended up getting it and going. On his way there, he was disappointed about it being closed and dark. He was not welcomed by one of the sellers there that were still open. He was shattered because it was like the light for the girl had also gone to dark. He does not see her as highly now because of this place. I believe that this story is to show to not think highly of someone or something because something not so good may occur. It is like an expectation versus reality situation.

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.

Similar to many stories by James Joyce,’ Araby’ uses a close first-person narrator displaying the world as it pleases his senses which leaves the readers with just a suggested instead of a clear moral story, the initial part of the story occurs around the Dubin, Ireland, which is the narrators home however at the conclusion of the story moves to bazaar across town. The story’s narrator is a young man with an undetermined age though he is young enough to go to the neighborhood school. The narrator loves Mangan’s sister who lives across the street. She is the sibling to the young boy’s friend. She is also young but it is implied that she is older than the narrator because she can attend the convent. The narrator does not expand on his home life but he lives with his aunt and uncle. The uncle is the most significant in the story because he prevents the narrator from going to the bazaar on time. ‘Araby” is about an introverted young boy navigating towards adulthood with little guidance from the community or family. The young character in this story leaves the house at night when people are asleep with the approval of his guardians.  The narrator’s uncle is good-natured but has a drinking problem. “Araby” adopts the form of a mission-a journey in pursuit of a precious or sacred thing however the quest is futile. Even if the young boy finally gets to the bazaar he is too late to buy a decent gift for Manga’s sister. Therefore it would have been better if he has stayed home. The boy in this story knows that the real adventures must be sought abroad however setting his goals on something that sounds exotic such as Araby which equates to Arabia, the boy cannot reach […]

The short story “Araby” by James Joyce, is about the love that a young boy has about a girl. This short story is told by questions to lead on how the boys obsession is about the girl. In the story, the narrator asks a question “What is the significance of the extinguished light at the end of the story that leaves him burning with anguish?”. This question leads to the idea that the boy is very eager and obsessed to find out what will happen between him and the girl. The reason i believe this is because in story on page 4, it says “Notice how the only light seems to be associated with appearances of the girl with whom the boy is infatuated”, this quote shows that the boy sees the girl as the most beautiful girl by saying that the light is associated by her appearances. Furthermore, in the story it mentions “In all his descriptions of her, she is edged in an almost holy light”.

“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.

“Araby” by James Joyce is a miserable story about a young boy coming to realize the distinction between his fantastic hope and reality in the world. At first the narrator does fall in love with Mangan’s sister. He imagines her day and night to the extent he has no idea where and how to express his love to her. One day he finally gets a chance to talk with her, and their first topic of conversion is going to a bazaar Araby. Unfortunately, the girl can’t go because “there would be a retreat that week in her convent”. Even though she can’t go and explore Araby with him together, the boy still behaves normally. At this time, his hope about the wonderful things in the world has expanded from a solely girl to a splendid bazaar. He is full of enthusiasm for Araby. Because it is a place that his admired girl recommended to him, he still wants to visit it even if on his own. However, he came to a place nothing special than a normal bazaar, which is even worse than he imagines from the indifferent treatment of the lady. He should have shared and described the beautiful scene to the girl but ends up disappointed about the reality that is far more than imagination from children. After reading the story, I am wondering about how the boy will describe Araby to the girl.

“Araby” is a short story written by James Joyce and it’s about a young boy who falls in love with his friend’s sister, who we don’t come to find out her name. He seems to have an obsession with her, as he thinks about her and tears come to his eyes when doing so, he would do anything for her. When they both finally speak, she asks if he’s going to the bazaar on Saturday which is called Araby and that she wishes she can go. The narrator decides that he will go and get a gift for her to maybe impress her or grab her attention. After some time the narrator eventually gets to the bazaar and realizes that it’s nothing like he’d expect, it was too late and most of the shops closed down. This makes the narrator feel depressed after he leaves. He is now a different person and sees the world a different way, he realizes that the world is full of self-centered people who only care about themselves. This short story is based on romantic irony and has a theme of expectations vs reality. It’s also a coming-of-age story. That’s what this story is truly about

The short story “Araby” by James Joyce is about a boy that will literally do anything to make the girl he likes happy. Mangan’s sister and the boy don’t speak much, but she is always on his mind. As mention in the story, he thinks of her when he goes grocery shopping with his aunt and when he sits alone in the rear room oh his house. The boy is so enamored with the girl that he believes that he would never have the guts to talk with her and convey his thoughts. Mangan’s sister tells the boy one morning that she would be unable to travel to Araby due to a commitment to a retreat at her school, to which the boy says that he will bring her something from Araby because he is going. This causes the boy to stop acting as he used to; he is impatient for the day to arrive and is unable to concentrate in school. On the day of the boy going to the bazaar, his uncle is taking longer than usual. His uncle arrives very late at home and later on gave the boy the money. Luckily the boy arrives at the bazaar just before 10 PM when it starting to close down. He approaches one of the remaining stalls but leaves empty-handed, feeling unwelcome by the woman in charge of the merchandise. The narrator stands furiously in the empty market as the lights go out, having failed to make a purchase for Mangan’s sister. “Araby” by James Joyce is not a love story. What is “Araby” really about? “Araby” was actually about all the obstacles one faces in order to make another person happy and valued.

The short story “Araby” by James Joyce is about a young boy who has such an infatuation with his friend Mangan’s sister, he begins to idolize her as if she was a saint. This is when the idea of love and desire comes into play. He simply can’t stop thinking about her and sees her in a godly way. As the story begins to unfold the realization that the young boy doesn’t quite understand the concept of the illusion and the reality of Mangan’s sister The young boy realizes that his love and desire go hand in hand with the illusion and reality he has for Mangan’s sister. As well as the connection the author James Joyce brings to this short story “ Araby” represents how Joyce views these same ideas of Love, Desire, Illusion, and Reality. By the end of the short story, he realizes the bareness of everyday life. The disappointment that is Araby awakens the boy to the fact that his immature dreams have blinded him.

“Araby” is a short story about a young kid who falls in love with a girl who is Mangan’s sister. Mangan’s sister comments to the young boy one day that she wishes she could go the Araby bazaar but is unable to. The young guy informs the girl that he will attend and bring her something. He believes that by purchasing something for the girl from the bazaar, he will impress her. The small lad becomes fixated by the Araby and Mangan’s sister. On the day of the Araby, the young boy’s uncle returns late after promising to pay for the Araby. When the boy reaches in Araby, it is already too late; the majority of businesses have closed. The young kid is devastated because he was unable to purchase something for the girl. Finally, the young guy realizes that he had fantasized about Araby for so long just to be disappointed. He recognized his folly in being so consumed by his “adoration” for Mangan’s sister. The young boy has no concept of what love is. This narrative demonstrates the concept of maturation and coming of age. The youngster sees “love” and the Arabs for what they truly are, not what he imagines them to be. His time at the Araby functions as a form of education and maturation for him. As a result, “Araby” is truly a coming-of-age story.

The short story, “Araby”, is about a young boy who is in love with a girl, Mangan’s sister. One day, Mangan’s sister mentions to the young boy that she would like to attend the Araby bazaar but can’t. The young boy tells the girl that he will attend and will bring something back for her. He thinks that if he buys the girl something from the bazaar that it will impress her. The young boy develops an obsession with the Araby and Mangan’s sister. On the day of the Araby, the young boy’s uncle arrives home late after he had promised to give him money for the Araby. When the boy arrives to the Araby, it is already too late and most of the shops are closed. The young boy is extremely disappointed and wasn’t able to buy the girl something. In the end, the young boy has an epiphany, he had fantasized about Araby so much just to be disappointed. He realized he was foolish for being so focused on his “love” for Mangan’s sister. The young boy doesn’t know what love is. This story shows the theme of coming of age and also maturing. The boy sees “love” and the Araby for what they truly are, instead of just his fantasized version of them. His experience at the Araby is like a teaching moment for him and a way of maturing him. Which is why “Araby” is really a coming of age story.