At first, I would like to focus on the words and phrases used in "Araby". As for "the priest"(a Roman Catholic Father, whose death appears in the introduction part of the novel), we can think of the comments on his property and furnitures that reads, "He had been a very charitable priest; in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furnitures of his house to his sister". I think it is a sneer, for it implies that the priest, by having a fortune, might not have been faithful to his position and also, by handing his furnitures over to his sister, might not have yet been free from secular ties of family relations. This prie

'Dubliners'(In this story, the author describes the Dubliners as a moralist reprimanding the spiritual paralysis of his homeland, Ireland. He indicated Dublin as the center of the paralysis.) delivers a feeling that is so distressing and so realistic that one becomes painful. Joyce delivered such feeling for Irish people. I think Koreans of today may also be sympathized if a great writer sharply and realistically reprimands the immoral and sluggish features of the present Korean society but it was the suggestion not for a limited region but for the common society, as presentation of a rule that proves the general history of the human societies. That shows why he is so great a writer. Araby successfully expresses the mix of situations of abundant symbolisms along with politics, culture and religion, through a story of puppy love in adolescence. He properly avoided the fantasies and exaggerations that are typical to novels. This shows how a novel can reflect and affect the real society. As the process of getting used to the reality and living with concealed wounds is the destiny for the human being, the boy is now telling us his past plainly, after having a painful experience to become an adult. To the boy, Araby was an unexpected place for a ceremony to become an adult and a mirror reflecting a new world.

st can be seen as a symbol of degenerated Ireland Catholic. (Although that may be regarded as an overly sensitive interpretation coming from the obsessions on symbolism, I think we had batter not miss such interpretation seeing from the fact that the writer presented those sentences in the introduction part of such a short novel. As an old priest, even if he had been inherited a big fortune, he might have donated the fortune to the society if he had been charitable. It is somehow not delightful to see a wealthy minister, who is supposed to be poor and honorable, espec

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