1. Araby, James Joyce: Images Of Blindness As Illumination
... ; she is continually viewed in white or brown, and cast in lamplight. With the exception of Mangan's sister, only objects and nature are given colours: "The other houses of the street... gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces"; "Among these I found a few paper-covered books I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow"; "The space of sky above us ... narrator's and by use of colour in detailing her, it appears that she is older then the protagonist, who sees the limits of his childhood as compared with "North Richmond Street, being blind". The angst of adolescence an...
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