Araby | Setting
"Araby" is set in North Richmond Street, Dublin, at the turn of the twentieth century. Joyce describes it as "a quiet street," with an "uninhabited house of two stories at the blind end," and lined on either side with brown houses facing each other. In addition to the streetscape, where the young narrator catches glimpses of Mangan's sister as she steps out of her house onto the doorstep, scenes in the story take place in the interior of the house the narrator shares with his aunt and uncle. The "musty" house had been previously occupied by a priest, who had died in the back drawing room, a...
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