"araby's" setting reinforces the theme and the characters by using the imagery of light and darkness. The experiences of the young boy in the story illustrate how people often expect ... sister. The story expresses it's theme through characterization of the boy and his point of view as the narrator. Darkness is used throughtout the story as the prevailing theme. James Joyce's story begins at dusk and continues throught the eveing during the winter. He choses this gloomy setting to be the home of the young boy who is infactuated with his ... 's sister, in order to give her a heavenly presence....

• Word Count: 365
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... Araby," James Joyce explores a theme of romantic disillusion. It is the story of first love; a display of what defies the ideal and dream of first love. The boy's thoughts and feelings portray that of a helpless victim, which most adolescence experience. Joyce develops his theme of romantic disillusion through a young boy who is innocent, idealistic, and disenchanted. To begin, Joyce ... (256). Although the boy is intrigued by Mangan's sister, his feelings are that of his innocent childhood stage he is in. Furthermore, Joyce depicts the boy's idealism in the way he romanticizes his relati...

• Word Count: 652
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... like theses are important to help authors develop the setting. The use of light and dark to develop setting is seen in the short story by James Joyce "Araby". The significance of the setting in this story is shown by the constant referral to light and dark to allow the reader insight into the characters ... it is a poor section of town by the characters description of his house "The high cold empty gloomy rooms- and "Through one of the broken panes- Joyce wanted us to see the dark side of the story so that the "light" (his friends" sister) would become easily recognizable. The social cl...

• Word Count: 799
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School