James Joyce's "Araby"
James Joyce's "Araby"
In James Joyce's short story "Araby," several different micro-cosms are
evident. The story demonstrates adolescence, maturity, and public life in Dublin
at that time. As the reader, you learn how this city has grown to destroy this
young boy's life and hopes, and create the person that he is as a narrator.
In "Araby," the "mature narrator and not the naive boy is the story's
protagonist."(Coulthard) Throughout the story this is easily shown, especially
when it refers to "the hour when the Christian Brothers' school set the boys
free."(Joyce 2112) Although they were freed, they were placed into an "equally
grim world, where not even play brought pleasure."(Coulthard) Joyce demonstrates
this culture by showing a boy's love for a girl throughout the story. This young
boy, is completely mystified by this girl, but at the end, the girl is replaced
by the girl with an "English accent" attending the booth at the bazaar. This
shows the power and persuasiveness that......
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