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James Joyce’s Symbolic “Araby”
James Joyce’s “Araby”, a story filled with symbolic images of church, religion, death, and decay. It is the story of youthful, sacred adoration of a young boy directed at a nameless girl, known only as Mangan’s sister. After visiting “Araby”, the mystical place in which he is trying to find the beauty missing from the church as well as his soul, the young narrator realizes his infatuation is misguided as the pain of that realization takes hold.
The story takes us to a place with images of a desolate, decaying setting. “North Richmond Street, being blind…” this being a dead end representing the end of his own faith. “An uninhabited house...( an empty church)” “The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives (the lack of faith in religion among those that inhabit the houses) within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.” (613) “The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing room.” A......

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