The narrator, caught in aberration, forgot how he had answered. Mangan's sister then said that she would not be able to go due to a retreat in her convent, but the young boy promised that he would go and bring something back for her.
For the next week, our narrator was lost in excitement. The moment at which he would give her the gift held such promise in his imagination. In school and out, his concentration diminished behind thoughts of her. He stated that, "Her image accompanied me in places most hostile to romance."(23) His body was overcome: "My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom."(23).
When the day came for him to go, he told his uncle in the morning to remember to be home in time. But as the evening arrived and the absence of his uncle stretched further into night, he grew irritated. Finally, at eight o'clock, the uncle arrived, claiming to have forgotten. The boy took the money from his uncle and left for the train station. He arrived at the makeshift stop assembled for the bazaar.
He walked into the bazaar and continued down the long corridor of shops. The boy soon realized that the shops were all closed except for a few scattered about. The nearest was a booth selling porcelain vases where the young woman who ran the booth stood talking to two men. After the boy began to browse, she came up and asked if he wanted to buy anything, and he replied negatively. She then went back to her conversation, checking back on him every few moments over her shoulder.
He left after a couple minutes and walked out onto the main pathway. Down toward the end he heard a voice yell that the light was out and stared into the darkness that consumed the upper half of the bazaar where he was heading. The boy concludes the story with: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity: and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
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