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Araby: As Guth & Rico (2003, pp59-60) note, James Joyce wrote most of his work set in a certain time and place, late 19th century and early 20th century Ireland. Araby is no exception. The plot to Araby is surprisingly thin: a boy develops a crush on a girl, goes to a bazaar called "Araby" to buy her a present, and finds himself disappointed when he finds that the supposedly grand and exotic bazaar is noting but cheap, tawdry English merchants. Seeing this, he realizes his own illusions about the girl are similarly pointless.
Much of what makes the story work is the rich, multi-layered sense of time and place. To an extent, we have to know something about Joyce himself, and how most of what he wrote about was poor Irish people around the turn of the 20th century. But also the many things Joyce tells us, the many rich textures he shares, give us a sense of that time. Without telling us, we realize from the that small amounts of money are hard to come by for this family, and how......

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