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The narrator in James Joyce's "Araby" is a romantic, idealistic boy who is obsessed with the exotic. For the narrator, both Mangan's sister and the bazaar called Araby represent the exotic in some...
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The nameless protagonist of James Joyce's "Araby" is an innocent, idealistic boy who is also something of a romantic. He's obsessed with the books in the library in his house, one of which is a...
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It's true that James Joyce's "Araby" explores the lives of people who could be considered "hollow." One of the descriptions that most exemplifies this idea comes later on in the story, when the...
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The priest left the following books on the shelf: The Abbot (by Walter Scott), The Devout Communicant, and The Memoirs of Vidocq. The first book is about Mary Queen of Scots and blends Romanticism...
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When the narrator eventually makes it to the Araby bazaar, he notices that half the lights are out in the gallery. He listens to the English girl flirting with the men at her booth; he hears one of...
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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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The most obvious character who is not named in James Joyce's "Araby" is Mangan's sister. Throughout the story, she is known as "Mangan's sister," not as a named character despite the fact that the...
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There are two direct references to religion in James Joyce's "Araby." The first reference is to a priest who used to live in the unnamed narrator's house. The second way the unnamed narrator...
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Outside of the peripheral context of "Araby," Mikhal Bahktin's theories of polyphony and heteroglossia closely correspond to Marx's theory of alienation and dialectic materialism. In fact, Marx was...
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"Araby" is a story about a boy’s first brush with desire. He has a crush on a girl. When she notices him and speaks to him, she asks if he is going to Araby, the local bazaar; the boy, seeking to...
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James Joyce's story "Araby" is told with a very high level of diction. Joyce not only chooses words from a rich vocabulary, but he is often poetic and abstract. For example: The other houses of...
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James Joyce's short story "Araby" chronicles a little boy's attempt to impress a neighborhood girl, called Mangan's sister, by traveling to a local bazaar called Araby and buying her a gift. The...
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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 poignant story about a youth's romantic infatuation and delusions is almost a prototype for the other tales in The Dubliners. Certainly, it is a prime example of Joyce's employment of...
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The dynamic between the narrator and his uncle in James Joyce's "Araby" is an interesting one, although it's touched on briefly. In the story, the narrator anxiously waits for his uncle to return...
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Really, the only thing Mangan's sister does to make going to the bazaar so important to the narrator is to speak to him about it. She had never actually spoken to the narrator before, and so, when...
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There are many different types of irony, but, in general terms, something is ironic when something very different than what was expected happens. Often, irony is used for comedic purposes but, in...
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The final passage of James Joyce's "Araby" explains the epiphany the narrator had as a young boy that "vanity" caused him to believe his feelings mattered in the world. The young boy had been...
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It's a pretty dark and bleak world in which the narrator lives. His street is "blind" and "quiet" with a "brown imperturbable [face]." The home's former tenant, a priest, had died inside, and the...
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Before talking specifically about Mangan's sister in James Joyce's "Araby," it's worth mentioning that Irish literature has a long history of using female characters as symbols and personifications...
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The boy's late arrival at the bazaar called "Araby" is his uncle's fault. The boy can't leave for the bazaar until he gets some money. The adults in the story cannot understand the importance of...
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At the beginning of the story, the narrator seems to associate night with his feelings for Mangan's sister. If the night brings him happiness, it's because that's the time of day when he gets to...
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The narrative point of view of this story is actually first person objective, and this means that the narrator is a participant in the story but that he is narrating it after the events have taken...
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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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In "Araby," light seems to symbolize innocence and the hopefulness that attends it, while dark stands for the state of having lost one's innocence and the cynicism that such a state breeds. When...
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A great theme to include in your presentation on James Joyce's "Araby" is the topic of disillusionment. It's one of the most important things Joyce touches on in the story, and so it might be worth...
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"Araby" is part of the Dubliners series of short stories by James Joyce, who uses his own personal experiences in the creation of his characters and situations. Joyce makes his characters and their...
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James Joyce's short story, "Araby," is a tale of moving from the innocence of youth to a more nuanced, more experienced understanding of reality. The naiveté of the narrator in the story allows us...
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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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Since this assignment has some complexity to it, I want to show you not just the response but also my process in understanding the assignment and then completing it. To restate the issue, we're...
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When you write "the elements of fiction," I'm led to believe you're talking about these: plot, conflict, characters, setting, and point of view. So I'll give a brief overview of each....
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This final line of the short story lets us know that the narrator understands that, no matter how important his desires are to him, the world will not change for him or make way for his goals. The...
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At the beginning of the story, the narrator is a naively optimistic young boy, one who imagines that the world will make way for his intense love and longing for Mangan's sister. "Her image...
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First, it helps to be aware that the short story, "Araby," comes from a book of short works written by James Joyce, and this book is called Dubliners. Therefore, it makes sense to assume the...
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The bazaar first becomes a symbol of the exotic and romantic; later it represents his disillusions. The young boy, who acts as the narrator of James Joyce's story, becomes infatuated with the...
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Understanding the forms of a work of literature helps a reader to grasp the message that the writer intends to impart. There are recognizable forms, essentially prose, poetry and plays made for the...
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"Araby" is very much a story about disappointed hopes, letting go of childish fantasy, and learning that the world does not bend or change for one person's dreams. In his attempt to get to Araby,...
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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 level of diction is very obviously high. There are many words and references which might be difficult for some readers to understand. For example: Among these I found a few paper-covered...
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The word "blind" plays a particularly strong role here. The narrator grows up on a street that is "blind" on one end (a dead-end) and often describes himself as sitting in the dark and looking...
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At first I thought that this might not be such a good idea because one is a short story and the other is a poem, but it occurs to me that you might enjoy the challenge of comparing and contrasting...
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James Joyce's "Araby" is an intriguingly subtle story, and its overall meaning is not immediately apparent. However, in general, the story can be said to be about the deconstruction of romantic...
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The narrator of "Araby" loses his innocence when he realizes that the world doesn't care at all about his love, that what makes the world go round is money and not feeling, that nothing will ever...
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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 "Araby," the narrator explains that the priest who lived in the house before his family had died there, in the drawing room. Further, he says that he found the priest's rusty bicycle pump out...
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The English accents of the three people in the stall at the bazaar in James Joyce's "Araby" reveal to the narrator that they are from England rather than from exotic Arabia. "Araby" is a form of...
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The main characters in "Araby" are the narrator, an unnamed young man, Mangan's sister, and the uncle. The narrator The youth takes the reader on a journey of the mind as his perceptions, which...
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Overall in "Araby," the narrator uses the description of his play with his friends to serve as a contrast to his behavior after speaking with Mangan's sister. Before meeting her, the narrator...
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In "Araby," the final story of the childhood section in James Joyce's Dubliners, the unnamed narrator is the story's protagonist, who sees himself as a modern knight going off to the crusades to...
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The narrator conflates his religious/spiritual side with his romantic affection for Mangan's sister. With this combination, his ideas about her and his role rise to idealistic heights. He allows...
