Araby | Topics for Discussion
1. Identify and discuss the numerous religious symbols in the story.
2. The narrator of "Araby" moves from innocence to experience through his epiphany. What has he learned by the end of the story?
3. What is the significance of the English accents that the boy overhears at the bazaar?
4. Joyce once said that in Dubliners he intended "to write a chapter of the moral history" of Ireland, because Dublin seemed to him to be at the "centre of paralysis." What do you think he meant by that? If you were to write a chapter of the moral history of your country, which city would...
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