... be prone to change, and why it always will. In "Araby," this sense of helplessness is ever present. The short story shows this feeling especially through the Alfred Prufrock-like sense of self pity that the narrator feels. Araby's narrator is very much a recluse by society's standards, hiding from strangers in his neighborhood by cowering in the shadows. It ... ...

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