... themselves being attracted members of the opposite sex, and find a way to deal with the consequences of their endeavors. With Connie the innocence lost is her shattered reality, with the boy in Araby it is his disillusionment which ends up shattered. Loss of innocence is arguably an integral ... , obsession, and irrationality are some of the first words that come to mind to describe James Joyce's short story, "Araby." Young love is something we all experience at some point in time, but the narrator was describing something more in the story, which was an obsession with his ... "Gazing u...

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