Araby Short story centering on an Irish adolescent emerging from boyhood fantasies into the harsh realities of everyday life in his country Based on his own experiences while growing up in Dublin in the late nineteenth century when Ireland was ID: 171873
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Slide1
James Joyce
“
Araby
”Slide2
Short
story centering on an Irish adolescent emerging from boyhood fantasies into the harsh realities of everyday life in his country
.
Based on
his own experiences while growing up in Dublin in the late nineteenth century when Ireland was
under
British
rule.
Joyce presents Dublin as a bleak
city,
with its dreary weather, dreary people, and dreary houses.
Boy
narrates the story in first-person point of view
.
Joyce based characters, places, and events in the story on recollections from his
boyhood.Slide3
The year is 1894. The place is North Richmond Street in Ireland's largest city, Dublin
.
In winter, the narrator and his friends, including a boy named
Mangan
, play in the street and in the muddy lanes along and behind the houses.
If
Mangan's
sister comes out and calls her brother to tea, everyone keeps in the shadows.
The
narrator always observes her closely, for he is strongly attracted to her even though he hardly knows her
.
The narrator’s infatuation is so intense that he fears he will never gather the courage to speak with the girl and express his feelings.Slide4
On school mornings, he waits for her to come out, then grabs his school books and follows her until their paths diverge.
She
is constantly in his thoughts even though they had never had a conversation.
"All my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: `O love! O love!' many times
.“
A day
comes when she speaks to him.
She asks whether he is going to the
Araby
bazaar Saturday evening. Slide5
She herself wants to go but cannot.
He
tells her that if he goes to the bazaar, he will bring back something for her
.
Araby
represents
a distant, mystical land to which he will travel on behalf of his beloved to obtain for her a splendid keepsake. He is like a knight planning a quest.
On Saturday morning, he reminds his uncle that he will be attending the bazaar that evening
.
After the narrator returns from school, he sits downstairs staring at a clock, waiting for his uncle to come home and give him money for the bazaar.
L
ooks
out at the
Mangan
girl's
house,
imagining he sees her in front of her house—her curved neck, her dress, her hand on the railing.Slide6
His uncle comes home at 9 in the evening.
In a hurry, the boy
leaves.
The narrator takes an empty third-class train across the river to the site of the bazaar.
When
he walks down the street to the bazaar building, it is nearing ten o'clock.
He
pays his way and walks through a turnstile only to discover that most of the stalls are already closed.
When
the narrator finds a stall that is still open, he goes inside and looks over a display of tea sets and porcelain vases. Slide7
When the narrator finds a stall that is still open, he goes inside and looks over a display of tea sets and porcelain vases
.
Does not purchase anything.
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger
.”
Disillusioned
by what he finds at the bazaar, realizes that
the
Mangan
girl probably has no romantic interest in him.
Belief
that she was attracted to him was a result of his
vanity.
T
ragic
story of
defeat.
In “
Araby
,” Joyce suggests that all people experience frustrated desire for love and new experiences.