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I just need to understand better about how the setting of the story Araby helped progress the story. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps.

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The setting of the story changes from the "blind" neighborhood, "musty" articles, and shady circumstances. It moves to the subway, which tries to prevent him from achieving his prize, to finally, Araby, the tacky market, in the form of an illusionary foreign adventure.

The blind North Richmond Street, a cul de sac, with an uninhabited house at its blind end, which is the immediate setting must be a metaphor of the 'blind alley' that our lived existence is in a big city. Then we have the unkempt garden with the central apple tree and irregularly growing bushes, suggesting a lost Eden, having lost its Adam in the dead priest. The dark muddy lanes, the dark gardens co-existing with the ashpits and stables, the flaring streets and noisy market-place on Saturday evenings further contribute to the setting of drab, routine city life. The cold, empty, silent rooms in the boy's house in contrast to the dining-hall and the front parlour, the cold wind, the rains, the boy's late walk along the busy festive streets towards Araby and the nearly dark fair-ground where the boy discovers the futility of his search for the beautiful-all are very important elements of the story's setting.