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Araby Short Story

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The narrator of the short story “araby” has a sense of innocences about him. He’s at that point in his life where he starts to discover the world and all its wonders. He thought he had a pretty good idea about everything. But he later finds out how wrong he is. I’m here to compare his innocence in the beginning of the story compared to the end where he faces a harsh reality that everything is not what it seems. The first line of the story sets the setting up pretty well. “North Richmond, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brother’s School sets free.”(122) This line tells me that the town where the narrator live is one, small and quiet, two either a dead end or Cul-De-Sac and, religious. The setting of the …show more content…

He is a pre adolescent in this stage in his life so he is just now figuring out what girls (or boys) are and is very confused. He in my opinion takes strange paths to show his affections to her. For one, he says “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door”. (123) He is to the point of where he is so consumed by this unknown love for a girl he has never ever talked to. The turning point of what he thought could be a beginning of a “fairytale relationship” is when they finally talked. Yes, we all know that it was a short conversation that was very cliche, but he didn’t think so. Mangan’s sister wanted to go to Araby, but she couldn’t. But the narrator took this as an opportunity to show off to her and get her gift. He waited and waited to finally go and when he did that in my opinion is the climax of the whole story, where he lost his innocence and had to face the reality that the world isn’t church girls and boys who fall in love and get married. He arrives at Araby after a train ride. We must not forget that he was late because his uncle came home late. The bazaar was already ending and empty, but he kept going searching for something special to get Mangan’s sister. He arrives at a kiosk with a lady and two men. This part of the story is where quite frankly, his soul was crushed. The lady had the audacity to flirt and not be ladylike. He had never seen anything so

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