Araby James Joyce's "Araby," is about the deep infatuation of a teenage boy for his friend's sister, and how poverty and anguish taint even the purest childhood dream. It also focuses on the paradox between fantasy and reality The boy ... older than him and really hardly even knows he exists. The boy only shows knowledge of her beauty and not of her personality. The boy obviously has a crush on her and somehow perceives it as love. One day Mangan's sister asks the boy whether he plans to go to Araby, a bazaar being held close by. She then requested that he bring her ... such an atmosphere o...

• Word Count: 506
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Araby is a story by James Joyce which takes place in Dublin in the late 1800's told to us in a first-person narrative point of view. It examines how a boy's infatuation with a girl is shattered when he sees what she is really like. The boy in "Araby", like Joyce as a youth, must begin to free himself from his dreams and see ... and lifeless. This sets a somber dreary tone for the story. James Joyce carefully creates a plot with events and happenings throughout the story. The main plot involves how a young boy overcomes a crush on his friend's sister. The girl tells him about a bazaar which ...

• Word Count: 422
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School