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The boy presented in James Joyce’s “Araby” is a would-be Romantic whose options seem limited, whose mood increasingly dark, and whose final attitude is one of frustration and even anger. The...
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The experience of initial hope is an integral part of both Joyce's short story and Jackson's narrative of small town life. In both works, there is an exposition of intense hope. The narrator in...
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The unnamed narrator's romantic observations allow Joyce to present his trip to Araby as not just a regular journey, but as an Arthurian quest. This romantic attitude to life can be seen earlier on...
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The epiphany of "Araby" comes at the conclusion of the story. As the boy "lingered before her stall, though I knew my stay was useless," he realizes that his idealization of Mangan's sister has...
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The young narrator imagines himself on a heroic quest and is caught up in the throes of young love. The “chalice” that he imagines bearing through the foes that stand between him and his...
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In the narrative, the speaker reveals that he cares very deeply about Mangan's sister. She seems to be his first experience with love, or with emotions that feel very much like love. He describes...
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The young adolescent narrator of "Araby" develops a crush on his friend Mangan's older sister, whose family lives where he does on North Richmond Street. He feels physically attracted to her,...
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"Araby" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" are similar in being first-person narratives in which a narrator is trapped in a situation from which or he/she would like to escape from but cannot. The unnamed...
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Both houses in "Araby" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" are psychological metaphors for entrapment and lack of possibility. In "Araby," the houses on the unnamed narrator's block represent the boy's...
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The narrator in the story idolizes and romanticizes Mangan's sister, a teenage girl a few years older than he is. He has hardly spoken to her but, nevertheless, she is an object of adoration to...
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There are undoubtedly biographical elements in "Araby," as there are in many of Joyce's works. The young Joyce, like the unnamed boy narrator, lived in genteel poverty in Dublin, moving around from...
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James Joyce's "Araby" is one story taken from Dubliners, a compilation of narratives set in Dublin, Ireland, an area in which many English dominated in the political positions and better jobs of...
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The boy's deeply in love with Mangan's sister. He's never felt anything like this before, and so it's hardly surprising that he can't concentrate on his schoolwork. In fact, he can't concentrate on...
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James Joyce's short story "Araby" contains more than one theme. Joyce's stories about his fellow Irish deal with complex ideas and emotions. He tends to re-visit several of the same themes in his...
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The epiphany in James Joyce's short story "Araby" takes place when the young boy overhears a casual, meaningless conversation between an English woman and two men while he is standing at a stall...
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Earlier in the story, the little boy has a casual conversation with Mangan's sister, who tells him that she cannot make it to the bazaar, named Araby. The little boy is infatuated with Mangan's...
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Authors choose their short story titles very carefully. Sometimes a title reflects a particular irony or theme developed in the story. Sometimes a title suggests the development of symbolism. The...
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The narrator of the story, a boy entering adolescence, wants to experience more than his humdrum life in Dublin. He describes his surroundings as bleak. His house is on a dead end (which he calls a...
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I wouldn't say that the poem "sheds light" on Araby, but there is certainly a connection there. Obviously, lets start with the title. Arab - Araby. The importance to this in both poems...
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The youth both romanticizes and idealizes his love for Mangan's sister. As he helps his aunt with her shopping on Saturday evenings by carrying some of the parcels, the youth's imagination merges...
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James Joyce's short story "Araby" is, among other things, a tale of a young boy who harbors a secret crush on one of the girls who lives in his neighborhood. Known only as "Mangan's sister" in the...
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The statement that best summarizes the story is "dreams often end in disillusionment." Joyce's short story begins with the idealism of youth and ends in bitter disappointment when he realizes that...
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The overarching theme in "Araby" is stagnation, and this theme is a particularly important one for James Joyce. As a boy, Joyce watched as his family disintegrated, brought down by his father's...
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In order to effect the brutal epiphany of the teenaged boy's disillusionment at the end of "Araby," writer James Joyce employs a ironic tone through the use of the adult narrator who recounts a...
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Araby is significant because it is representative of how the things we hope and dream of are so often inconsistent with stark realities.In the story, Araby is a bazaar with an exotic theme, brought...
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The quote you reference is the final sentence in James Joyce's "Araby," and it is arguably the most important sentence in the whole story, as it illustrates the protagonist's disillusionment with...
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Much of the symbolism in the work revolves around Catholicism. One example of symbolism is the Catholic priest, who could be said, given the overall ambivalence toward the Catholic Church in the...
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The narrator feels nothing less than a complete childish infatuation with Mangan's sister. He views her with almost saint-like reverence, and indeed, the way she is described through the first...
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James Joyce’s short story titled “Araby” is set in Dublin, the capital of Ireland. This is one of the reasons the story appeared in a collection of similar stories by Joyce titled Dubliners....
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Concerning Joyce's "Araby" the enotes Study Guide on the story lists three themes revealed within the story. I'll list the three and give a brief explanation of each: Alienation and Loneliness:...
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The main conflict in the story is character vs. self, the result of the narrator’s shyness and loneliness. The narrator of the story is a young man who seems unable to find his way in the world....
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This short story is written from a first person objective point of view. What this means is that the narrator is a participant in the story's events and uses the first person pronoun "I" while...
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[Please note that eNotes editors are only permitted to answer one question per posting. Additional questions should be posted separately.] In James Joyce's short story, "Araby," the protagonist...
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The destination of Araby's protagonist signifies two things: the symbol of his idealization and the truth of his coming of age. This boy has idealized Mangan's sister and his feelings toward...
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One of the definitions for archetype is as a literary term used to express details. In James Joyce's "Araby," the darkness and blindness are models of behavior of the protagonists of The Dubliners...
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The imagery and symbolism used in both of these stories are used to convey the central character in each story, and to develop the themes that the stories raise. For example, in "A&P," the way...
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The boy in James Joyce’s short story “Araby” is characterized in a number of ways, including the following: He has a growing appreciation of feminine beauty, as when he says of Mangan’s...
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Desire is presented as a theme in both 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant and in 'Araby' by James Joyce. Each short story describes a desire of a different kind however. In 'The Necklace' it the...
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The location of the boy's house, being in a "blind" street could be said to be representative of the boy's nature at the beginning of the story, as compared with his character at the end of the...
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"A&P" and "Araby" have a similar plot: we have a first-person narrator, a young teenage boy, describing a particular encounter with a highly attractive and desirable teenage girl; the boy has...
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In James Joyce’s short story “Araby,” the lives of the characters seem narrow and constricted in a number of ways, including the following: The narrator and his family live, quite literally,...
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The young boy who is the narrator is the protagonist. He has a crush on Mangan's sister. Mangan is a neighbor and friend of his. Every day he watches her. When going to school, he follows her...
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The narrator of Joyce's story of disillusionment and romantic disappointment is an adolescent male youth of Dublin. Influenced by Sir Walter Scott's romantic tale Ivanhoe, the youth fantasizes and...
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The time in the story is important, especially as it relates to the boy's life. He is a young boy, perhaps nearing the age of 13 or 14, and has developed his first crush (on his friend Mangan's...
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The search for the Holy Grail is usually referring to the quest for the Goblet that Jesus drank from during The Last Supper, which if you find and drink from, will bring you eternal life. Certain...
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This story features a crushing moment of epiphany, which is when a character realises a central truth about themselves and their life. We are introduced to the narrator who, in a childlike way,...
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Holy cow: 3 sentences! This story is worth much more because of its intensity of emotion and its final disappointment. However: I think the flashback occurs when the narrator returns to the room...
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With the hopes of bringing Mangan's sister a gift from the bazaar, the narrator recalls, [T]he syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and...
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Although it is likely after the fact, there is no direct indication that the narrator is recalling these events from a point in time that is specifically "years later." However, this is a striking...
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The story takes place on North Richmond Street in Dublin, Ireland, around the turn of the twentieth century. There are many quotes you can pull from this very descriptive story, but the following...
