... ", although it would be more appropriate to say lust. While he hopes to find a gift for her at Araby, it is ultimately the opportunity to taste excitement, foreign culture, and escape from "the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play" that is the true "purpose of [his] journey". As ... ...

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