Araby Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Araby.

Araby Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Araby.
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Araby

Summary: In his short story "Araby", James Joyce portrays a character who strives to achieve a goal and who comes to an epiphany through his failure to accomplish that goal.
Araby

In his short story "Araby", James Joyce portrays a character who strives to achieve a goal and who comes to an epiphany through his failure to accomplish that goal. Written in the first person, "Araby" is about a man recalling an event from his childhood. The narrator's desire to be with the sister of his friend Mangan, leads him on a quest to bring back a gift from the carnival for the girl. It is the quest, the desire to be a knight in shining armor, that sends the narrator to the carnival and it's what he experienced and sees at the carnival that brings him to the realization that some dreams are just not attainable.

Joyce uses the setting of the story to help create a mood and to develop characters and themes throughout the story. "An uninhibited house of two stories stood at the blind...

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