James Joyce. Araby

1. In Joyces short story, the young narrator panoramas Araby as a symbol of the mysteriousness and conquering of the Middle East. When he crosses the river to attend the bazaar and purchase a render for the girl, it is as if he is crossing into a foreign land. But his teddy to the bazaar disappoints and disillusions him, awakening him to the rigid reality of life around him. The sons dream to buy some little thing on bazaar is roughly divided on the c on the wholeousness of adults who have bury about his request.And Dublin bazaar with alluring oriental-sounding name Arabia is a woeful parody of the real holiday. 2. Although James Joyces story Araby is told from the first person viewpoint of its young protagonist, we do not think that a boy tells the story. Instead, the narrator seems to be a man arised well beyond the experience of the story. The mature man reminisces about his youthful hopes, desires, and frustrations.Because of the double think narration of the story, fir st by the boys experience, then by a mature experienced man, the story gives a wider portrait to using sophisticated satire and symbolic imagery necessary to analyze the boys character. 3. Mangans sister is the other aboriginal character in the story. The narrator shows us in ironic way of life that in his youthful awe of Mangans sister she is the embodiment of all his boyish dreams of the beauty, of physical desire and, at the same time, the embodiment of his adoration of all that is holy.Her image, constantly with him, makes him feel as though he bears a holy chalice through a crowd of foes the Saturday evening congregation of drunken men, bargaining women, cursing laborers, and all the others who have no existence of the mystical beauty his young mind has created in this world of temporal ugliness. 4. Joyce very clearly defined his creative task in the Dubliners My figure was to write a chapter of the spiritual history of my country, and I chose the scene of Dublin, becau se this metropolis is the center of paralysis .The opening paragraph, setting the scene prepares us for the view we receive of the conflict mingled with the loveliness of the ideal and the drabness of the actual. eagle-eyed monotonous periods, the rhythm and the threefold repetition of the word blind in the sense of impasse and blind create comic discrepancy between the title of the story and its beginning. 5. James Joyce uses dark and gloomy references to create the lead mood or atmosphere. Dark time of day (night) is used end-to-end the story and darkness is the prevailing theme.Joyce writes repetitively of the dark as a direct representation of the boys life. The boy plays in the dark, he hides in the dark, and he lives in the dark. The darkness is where he comes to an epiphany, and where he matures as a boy. The narrators perception of the darkness causes him to reflect on his own closing off and loneliness. The nameless boys destiny is in the darkness of Dublin, and Joyce k nows in that respect is no escaping this. In the end of the story, the boy suddenly awakens to the bleakness of the flat life around him.