... this is exactly what occurs in two famous short stories. Both Updike's A&P and Joyce's Araby provide a similar theme that conveys a boy's infatuation for a girl and the hardships he has to go through, in order to acquire more experience in the complicated area of love. These passions that are in both stories ... are presented through the use of detail and the intentions of both protagonists to capture the heart of the girl of their dreams. In short stories or novels, detail is mostly always an important characteristic. However, the same two stories can be looked at ... opposite sex. Th...

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... characters contribute to the boy's developing sense of maturity, and eventually, lead him into adulthood. Mangan's sister, the boy's uncle, the priest, and the girl at the bazaar all serve the purpose of molding the boy into a mature person. Undoubtedly the main person who unknowingly helps the boy along the path of ... best exemplifies these ideas. His immaturity shows in these scenes, but in the end, he finally realizes how immature he really has been by following this girl around. By saying that, we find out that the boy does not just realize his immaturity right away, it takes him a ...

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... fantasies of romance that play in his head. A good part of the story deals with the boy's infatuation with Mangan's sister. He has this great love for the girl, and yet he says he has never talked to her: "I had never spoken to her, except a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons ... to all my foolish blood" (Joyce 477). The boy is extraordinary lovesick for a girl he knows so little about. He sums up his feelings for her perfectly when he says, "But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like ... of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there and, fallin...

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... people. I think since he doesn't have anyone at all he just wants everyone. However, I think that the boy needs a lot more attention then this one girl. The boy has his aunt, uncle, and sister but they don't seem to bother with him too much. Although he may not admit it, he needs more ... ." (Joyce, 156). I saw this quote in a non-literal way when I was considering time being a symbol of the story. Because his relationship with the girl is taking so long to develop he becomes very irritated and frustrated with everything. All stories have to have some sense of time but these two especial...

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... lives in. The narrator feels a sense of imprisonment, which leads to trying to escape Dublin and chase a dream that is unrealistic to obtain by talking to a girl that he admires. The narrator comes to a realization that he can not have an ideal life, in the sense of finding love and experiencing new things that most ... have pushed him to make a difference in his life because he is unhappy in the situation he is in, especially with his obsession over the Mangan girl and wanting to go to the bazaar. The narrator gains courage in making his escape from the dull life his has in Dublin by no...

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... that he can follow her every morning. Maybe that is the way the boy is trying to impress her. Eventually, the boy becomes so preoccupied with impressing the girl that he begins to just forget about everything else that is going on in his life: "I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the ... me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play." (Joyce 844). One day the boy gets to speak to the girl and agrees to buy her something from the bazaar as a desperate cry for attention from the girl. He arrived at the bazaar spending more money than he expected. The boy th...

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... journey into an exotic bazaar, to the development of childhood into adolesence. As is the case of many boys this age, the unnamed narrator is obsessed with a girl but in a romantic, pure way. Driven by such "blinding" obsession, the realization of his fantasy leads him to a negative reaction of his new awareness The ... shadows." This character that Joyce creates is a young boy of passion and intense romance. He exists in this dreamy world of fantasy, in love with a girl whom he can barely speak to but in his mind--she is everywhere, " Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange pr...

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... her convent, he becomes fixated on going to the bazaar and getting her a gift. He becomes so obsessed with this girl and the gift that he starts ignoring his school work and can think of nothing but the bazaar and this girl. He asked his uncle to give him the money for the gift, and his uncle agreed. Unfortunately, his uncle forgot ... friend's older sister, and is quite naive. This is based upon the foolish and dramatic things he does to win the affection of this girl. It is very obvious to the reader that this boy wants this girl more than anything because as soon as she mentions the ...

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... ;Araby," a short story written by James Joyce, is about the life of a sexually frustrated boy and his obsession with a young girl. The boy, who is nameless in this story, goes against his religious beliefs because of his sexual desires. We, as the readers, ... by his friend, Mangan's, sister. The author uses sexual implications and religious symbols throughout the story, which helps explain the instances the boy has with the girl. From the beginning of the story, especially in paragraph five, Joyce explains how the protagonist's "eyes were often full of tears." (pg. ... 87) This senten...

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... his friends, even in the biting cold of the winter, until his "body glows" (Joyce). He develops an infatuation with a girl known as Mangan's sister, to whom he promises to bring back something from the Araby Bazaar. Here he is a young, innocent boy who has a crush on ... is extremely disappointed in what he sees. He realizes that the bazaar is just a place where a person can buy things, and that Mangan's sister is just a girl with whom he had a meaningless conversation with. The fact that the Boy was "remembering with difficulty why he had come..." (Joyce) shows that he does ... psycholo...

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... him to have feelings of shame, anguish and anger. He was possessed and controlled by his passion for Mangan's older sister. His ideals of the girl were not realistic but were futile and vain. The girl drew out feelings in him and he discovered that feelings must be reciprocated and the downsides that love can also be painful. He had a difficult time ... had no existence beyond how he felt and the understanding of this was painful for the character. The boy's pride took over his feelings for the girl that were destructive and almost destroyed him. The girl had a negative influence on him...

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... is a story by James Joyce which takes place in Dublin in the late 1800's told to us in a first-person narrative point of view. It examines how a boy's infatuation with a girl is shattered when he sees what she is really like. The boy in "Araby", like Joyce as a youth, must begin to free himself from his dreams and see reality (Stone ... tone for the story. James Joyce carefully creates a plot with events and happenings throughout the story. The main plot involves how a young boy overcomes a crush on his friend's sister. The girl tells him about a bazaar which she cannot attend, and the ...

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... faded color and dirty, poor location of the divine being who has meaning only in his past. Part Four also includes a final change within Stephen when he observes the beautiful girl in the water. It is this scene that Stephen Dedalus realizes that the true meaning of his own life lies on earth, not in the heavens. The diction used by ... James Joyce while Stephen admires the girl in the water, thoughtfully shows the reader the vast significance of the moment. After Stephen sees the girl, his cheeks are described as being "aflame", which is a very important use of word choice, especially ...

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... , who sang a come-all-you about O"Doonovan Rossa, or ballad about the troubles in our native land." Writes James Joyce. He uses setting again to explain boy's feeling to this girl. She is like angel to him. And even the setting like market place could not destroy her image, image of something holy and innocent for him. The story finishes very ... unpleasant but really realistic. The boy promises the girl to bring something from the Araby but his uncle is late. The uncle forgets that his nephew asked him to come earlier. There is still hope for the boy. He ... stores already closed. He f...

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... feelings are that of his innocent childhood stage he is in. Furthermore, Joyce depicts the boy's idealism in the way he romanticizes his relationship with the young girl. He yearns for the day she will speak to him. In the moment that Managan's sister converses with the boy, he "was so confused that I ... did not know what to answer," (256). At that moment, the boy enters an ideal romantic relationship with the girl, although it only exists in his mind. The boy can think of nothing but going to Araby and returning with a gift for her, "at night in ... my bedroom and by day in the class...

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... any explicit description the reader is provided with only implications of to deduce an impression the character. The consensus, however, is an introverted girl, soft spoken but well thought out and hardworking, molded from a once care free young girl by experiences of tremendous grief throughout different times in her life. She has lost her brother, mother and a good friend, Tizzie Dunn, in ... ; (468), the author suggests that Eveline thinks it is his masculinity that is going to save her from the oppressive life she would otherwise continue to live. As if every girl in the same positio...

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... will offend other people with the speech he had written. "They would think that he was airing his superior education. He would fail with them as he failed with the girl in the pantry His whole speech was an utter failure"(187). Gabriel is thinking that if he tells his speech truthfully, he will make the people around him mad. As ... the story to have an epiphany of some sort in relation to the people around them. The young boy, in the story "Araby", realizes that his intense love for a mysterious girl was "driven and derided by vanity"(30). His image of a perfect love, like Gabriel's, w...

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... to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: O love! O love! many times."" (Joyce 74). The story builds on the young boy's excitement over a girl, Mangan's sister, in to which he owes his trip to the bazaar. However, once he arrives no one has any time for him. In his quest for ... a girl, it is ironic that the girl who does talk to him gives him the cold shoulder, which in turn shatters him. At the end the boy just lets his coins to drop, "I allowed the two ... ...

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... the older kids hung out" (753) in order to do so, which meant spending hours with guys she most likely just met. Connie represents the typical fifteen year-old-girl; she a naive adolescent who is self-absorbed, and thinks about how she is perceived by peers while she stares at herself in the mirror. Much like the girls who are ... then able to take advantage of her vulnerability. Oates then shows how the guy in the story has the possibility of having an adverse effect when dealing with this adolescent girl. The story also can be reminiscent of a fairytale - at the end of the story, the ...

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... imaginative. He is ignorant and therefore innocent, and lacks the full understanding of the world around him. This all changes quickly after he finds himself in love with a beautiful young girl. He agrees to go to Araby to buy her a gift; however, when he arrives there it is too late. "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and ... already a young woman. The reader would assume that she is in her early twenties, being that she already had attended college for two years and was employed. She was not a girl in search of love like in "Araby-, she was a young woman wi...

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... makes him superior to everyone. This can be seen when he first talks to Lily and upon her answer to his question Gabriel feels that " he had failed with the girl in the pantry."(Dubliners, page 179) He receives her answer as a personal failure on his side. Same respect to the society and his family can be seen later on when ... ranks ended once when he met Mrs. Sinico in the Rotunda. Mrs. Sinico was a wife of a merchant boat captain who was plying between Dublin and Holland, and they had a baby girl. The meetings between Mr. Duffy and Mrs. Sinico in the beginning are accidental, but lat...

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... imaginative. He is ignorant and therefore innocent, and lacks the full understanding of the world around him. This all changes quickly after he finds himself in love with a beautiful young girl. He agrees to go to Araby to buy her a gift; however, when he arrives there it is too late. "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and ... already a young woman. The reader would assume that she is in her early twenties, being that she already had attended college for two years and was employed. She was not a girl in search of love like in "Araby", she was a young woman wi...

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... 's sister which he has never felt before for anybody. Just as Larry did with his mother the boy in "Araby" gets so into his feeling of love he tells the girl that he will pick up a gift for her at the festival she can't attend. Both boys when caught up in the state of love both say things which come to ... his father because his mother tells him she will marry him. While the boy in "Araby" feels he is now a step above his friends now that he has talked to a girl that he thinks he is in love with. ...

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... in a traincar, and finally to the long awaited bazaar called "Araby". Joyce starts with this common setting to support his characters emotional feelings towards his idea of love of a neighbor girl. He seems to be attracted tothings by his way of glamorizing them, such as the book he finds in his home. He likes this book because of its yellow pages ... with the boys expectations of his dreams and imagination of what the bazaar will be like. As the street is blind, so also is the boys desire to please this girl, who he has placed somewhat on a pedestal, with something so exotic and unusua...

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... dream. It also focuses on the paradox between fantasy and reality The boy in the story lived in a Dublin and dreams of starting a relationship with his friend, Magan, sister. The girl is apparently older than him and really hardly even knows he exists. The boy only shows knowledge of her beauty and not of her personality. The boy obviously has a crush ... reason. This part of the story depicts the boy's disappointment and realization. In such an atmosphere of "blindness" the aunt and uncle are not aware of the boy's anguish, the girl not conscious of the boy's "love" for her , and the b...

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