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  • Araby

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    "Araby" is a short story by James Joyce that appeared in his collection Dubliners. The vignette is about a boy who has a crush on a girl but does not know how to deal with his feelings. The story follows his travels to the Araby bazaar late one evening to buy her a gift but is disappointed when he finds stalls closed and only a few seedy characters flirting with one another. The short story contrasts a youthful romantic view of love with a drab and adult world of lust.

  • Commentary on The Main Character in Araby

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    Araby Araby by James Joyce the story is told through the first person viewpoint of an un named protagonist a little boy of about 11 years of age He begins by describing North Richmond Street the little boy is in love with Mangans sister who is older than him probably in her teen years she does not share a mutual feeling with him as a matter in fact she doesnt even notice his existence at times In his only conversation with her she reveals that she will not be able to go to the Araby bazaar alth

  • Love in Araby

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    Araby Araby is about a young teenage boys experience of first love In the story the boy realizes the pitfalls that come with the emotions of love Love after all is an emotion that comes and goes It is an ideal that one tries to conform to but when faced with the harsh realities of life this idealism may fall apart This is at the core of the lessons in the short story Realities do present us a different side Such is the predicament the boy was in At the start of the story we learn that the pries

  • Passage Analysis: Araby

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    The second paragraph of James Jocyes Araby sets up important themes that play through out the short story Not only does it display the boy as nave and immature but it comments on the dark and bleak society he lives in Both of these themes play a major factor that prompts his obsessive love relationship with Mangans sister The boy begins the paragraph by casually stating The former tenant of our house a priest had died in the back drawing room This off hand remark immediately displays both inexp

  • A & P Compared to Araby

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    Throughout the two short stories A

  • Relationship in Araby

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    In Araby by James Joyce the boys relationship with Mangans sister is very limited and also is a type of friendship where they just know who they are The boy is in love with Mangans sister The boy hardly knows Mangans sister and she hardly knows who he is but yet he thinks he has a relationship with her He would watch her through his window every time she walked outside the house He would watch her do different things when she was near or around him He had spoken with her only a few times but no

  • Araby: Reader Response

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  • Characteristic Restrained Misery in Araby and The Red Convertible

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    Characteristic Restrained Misery Characters often cannot express their interior self because of their social and cultural restriction In the two different stories Araby and The Red Convertibles the authors used a significant way to depict characters conflict between an individuals social and interior self James Joyce is the author of the short fiction Araby which is about an adult narrator a character of the story who was confused with his thoughts and dreams of his younger stage Louise Erdrich

  • Childhood in Araby and We Are Seven

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    Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood Benjamin Franklin Even in the best circumstances childhood puts us on a long transitory path that leads to adulthood The road does not provide the smoothest ride for us travelers but is littered with experiences and sacrifices that shape who we are and who we become This topic is addressed in both James Joyces Araby and William Wordsworths We Are Seven in a very different yet similar way In We Are Seven the youth of the girl accompanied by th

  • Comparing Araby and Young Goodman Brown

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