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James Joyce's short story "Araby" is filled with symbolic images of religion, materialism and paralysis. The story opens and closes with a strong sense of symbolism that is continually alluded to throughout the story. As seen in the body, the images are shaped by the narrator's experience of the Church and the stagnation of Dublin. The protagonist is fiercely determined to invest in someone within this Church the holiness he feels should be the natural state of all within it, but a succession of disillusioning experiences awakens him to see that his determination is in vain. At the climax of the story, when he realizes that his dreams of holiness and love are inconsistent with the actual world, his anger and anguish are directed, not toward the Church, but toward himself as "a creature driven by vanity" (p33). By analyzing "Araby's" potent use of symbolism and the inherent meanings divulged through this method of discourse, we are able to see how the symbols are actualized to......

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