Dubliners | Araby: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. Knowing how important religious symbols are in “Araby,” what do you make of the “wild garden” in the boy’s backyard, with its “central apple-tree”?

2. The first sentence of “Araby” describes the Christian Brothers’ School “set[ting] the boys free” at the day’s end. How is this wording significant?

3. Although the narrator is madly in love with Mangan’s sister, he reveals this to no one. What does this imply?

4. The narrator says that her name “sprang to his lips […] in strange prayers and praises which I...


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