James Joyce's "Araby" is a short story drawn from Joyce's childhood in Dublin. ... The themes of "Araby" are those of paralysis of anticipation of a joyous trip to a Dublin bazaar, which includes an Oriental motif, Araby. ... Joyce's "Araby" explores the hopes and dreams of a young boy and how those hopes are dashed by the stark realities of inescapable challenges in everyday life. ... Araby was the symbol of his passion for escape and adventure. ... These were the social ills of the city he knew so well and Joyce's short story of Araby might have been his eulogy of a city...

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Pilgrimage to Clarity After a close examination of the short story "Araby" by James Joyce, several instances of religious symbolism seem to be intertwined throughout the story. ... Through the use of symbolism, James Joyce raises many questions concerning his childhood, while also telling the story of a young boy's journey from romance to despair and disillusionment brought about by a young girl's unintentional taunts. ... Joyce often describes many things in the boy's life as being dark. ... As the boy arrives at Araby, he finds that it is deserted. To him, the ideas of wha...

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In James Joyce' short story "Araby" he describes a young boy's first experience with love and obsession. ... James Joyce wrote this story to reflect on the irrational complexities of a young man's first love. ... James Joyce chose to write "Araby" in the first person narrative point of view. ... James Joyce uses this point of view effectively by leaving many of the characters with no name what so ever. ... In conclusion, James Joyce has written a story that reflects everybody's struggles between their childhood and their adolescence. ...

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*Although "Araby" was a very short story, the author James Joyce did an impressive job of discussing very deep issues through his skills in using light, vision, and beauty. ... *With the very first line of "Araby," Joyce is being critical of the church during his time. ... "(404) Interestingly, James Joyce describes the street in terms of vision. ... *Although James Joyce's "Araby" ended with a somewhat negative or gloomy mood, the message was powerful. ... References to light, vision and beauty are extremely powerful, especially when it comes to discussing the issues that James Joyc...

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"Araby," a short story written by James Joyce, is about the life of a sexually frustrated boy and his obsession with a young girl. ... James Joyce uses religious imagery and sexual implications to make us understand how the boy's religious background impacts the way he handles the challenges he faces and how it is very hard for him to find his true self. ... From the beginning of the story, especially in paragraph five, Joyce explains how the protagonist's "eyes were often full of tears.... " (pg. 87) This is where Joyce uses the religious symbols and connects it...

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In James Joyce's short story Araby he is successful in creating an intense narrative. ... James writes Araby from a first person narrative and in doing so he may have taken the opportunity to make a long awaited confession that is so deeply embedded in his mind he is able to remember it as it had happened only but a day prior. ... In the first paragraph of Araby, Joyce presents the Catholic Church in an unfavorable manor. ... We see this is true because the girl initiates the conversation between the two, asking if he is going to Araby. ... People reading James Joyce's Araby at th...

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In James Joyce's short story Araby he is successful in creating an intense narrative. ... James writes Araby from a first person narrative and in doing so he may have taken the opportunity to make a long awaited confession that is so deeply embedded in his mind he is able to remember it as it had happened only but a day prior. ... In the first paragraph of Araby, Joyce presents the Catholic Church in an unfavorable manor. ... We see this is true because the girl initiates the conversation between the two, asking if he is going to Araby. ... People reading James Joyce's Araby at ...

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Both Updike's A&P and Joyce's Araby provide a similar theme that conveys a boy's infatuation for a girl and the hardships he has to go through, in order to acquire more experience in the complicated area of love. ... One example of specific detail that is present in A &P, as well, is the "whiteness of the girl's skin" ("John Updike A&P and James Joyce's Araby.") In Araby, the male protagonist focuses on the "milky softness and "the white curve of her neck,"" ("John Updike A&P and James Joyce's Araby.") which demonstrates the boy's interest in slight feature...

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Araby is a story by James Joyce which takes place in Dublin in the late 1800's told to us in a first-person narrative point of view. ... The boy in "Araby", like Joyce as a youth, must begin to free himself from his dreams and see reality (Stone 375-410). ... James Joyce carefully creates a plot with events and happenings throughout the story. ... James Joyce does a good job of giving one solid theme of the story through his very descriptive perceptions of life and society in middle class Dublin in the 1890's. Joyce's usage of the methods of fic...

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"araby's" setting reinforces the theme and the characters by using the imagery of light and darkness. ... James Joyce's story begins at dusk and continues throught the eveing during the winter. ... James Joyce uses the bright light when describing Mangan's sister, in order to give her a heavenly presence. ... James Joyce uses the light at the bazaar to be bright and open, but it is dark and closed. ... James Joyce uses the setting to symbolize a key concept of the story. ...

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The main character in the short story "Araby" by James Joyce is a young boy that looks through life with self-deceptive eyes. ... Towards the end of his quest at Araby, he discovers the difference between his dream world and actuality, sending him a crushing blow of reality. ... This happened morning after morning (Joyce 477). ... His futile quest to Araby ends when he arrives at the bazaar and realizes with clarity that Araby is not what he had imagined. ... He feels he is a "creature driven and derided by vanity" and the vanity is his own (Joyce 480). ...

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"Araby" 1914 James Joyce 1882-1941 The short story, "Araby", written in 1914, by James Joyce is about a very depressed and lonely boy who decides to go to an eastern-styled bazaar in hopes that it will ease his miserable life. ...

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Araby James Joyce's "Araby," is about the deep infatuation of a teenage boy for his friend's sister, and how poverty and anguish taint even the purest childhood dream. ... One day Mangan's sister asks the boy whether he plans to go to Araby, a bazaar being held close by. ... Getting to Araby then became his mission. ... The paradox between dreams and reality became clear to the boy after he visited the Araby fair. The boy imagined the Araby as an exotic place filled with thrills and mystery. ...

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Analyzing the Setting In James Joyce's "Araby" by Elizabeth Seegers James Joyce's story "Araby" takes place in the late 1800's toearly 1900's. ... The story moves into the characters home, then toa short ride in a traincar, and finally to the long awaited bazaar called "Araby". Joyce starts with this common setting to support his characters emotional feelings towards his idea of love of a neighbor girl. ... Joyce cleverly begins the revelation of what the actual bazaar is like and this setting shows the emotional realization of the boy. ...

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Among many modernist authors is James Joyce. ... One of these short stories is Araby. The literary devices used by Joyce in his short story Araby display aspects of modernism. ... In the story Araby, an epiphany occurs in the main character. ... The way James Joyce uses literary devices in Araby helps to show the reader the aspects of modernism throughout the story. ...

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In "Araby", James Joyce depicted a story of a boy who was infatuated with his friend's sister and promised to get her a gift but was later disillusioned when he couldn't keep the promise. ... The climax began when the girl asked him if he was going to Araby. ... On the day he was suppose to go to Araby, his uncle who promised to give him money for Araby, came home late and drunk. ... Because of this, he was late for Araby. ...

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This last passage from the story "Araby" by James Joyce from Dubliners has a great amount of significance in showing and telling us the theme of the story. The theme that emerges out of this final image of despair at the end of "Araby" is hopelessness and entrapment because the story shows the narrator, who remains unknown, feels trapped and does not have a sense of identity due to the endless routine given in the environment he lives in. ... In "Araby," Joyce suggests that all people experience frustrated desire for love and new experiences.As Joyce writes the narrator's change...

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Their Loss of Illusion The two stories "Araby" by James Joyce and "Jasmine" by Bharati Mukherjee are both stories of youth and lost innocence. ... In his brief yet complex story "Araby", James Joyce concentrates entirely on his character, a young boy who lived in Dublin around the turn of the century. ... He agrees to go to Araby to buy her a gift; however, when he arrives there it is too late. ... Muhkerjee's "Jasmine" has similarities, yet on the other hand it is exceedingly different from "Araby". ... The boy in "Araby" ...

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"Araby" by James Joyce uses setting and atmosphere in creating a general tone for the short story. ... Joyce makes this reality rather bleak and shows how the boy transforms these bleak images into ones of romance and enchantment. ... Joyce also uses the description of the priest's home to enhance the story. ... The boy finally comes into reality when he reaches "Araby." ...

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In his short story "Araby," James Joyce has recreated a desolate and impoverished neighborhood in Ireland during one of the darkest chapters of that nation's recent history. The reader gains an understanding of the lifestyle of the main character, a young boy, as Joyce details where he lives, plays, and visits through the story. ... More so than other settings in "Araby," the bazaar is the most affecting in its display as the boy finally realizes how he and the lower class of which he is a part is viewed by those who consider themselves superior. ... Joyce has created a world that explain...

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James Joyce's "Araby" demonstrates a person's need for happiness. ... (Joyce 295). ... (Joyce 296). In addition to her physical beauty, the boy also associates Mangan's sister with the romance of the bazaar: "The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me" (Joyce 296). ... The narrator in James Joyce's "Araby" uses an infatuation with an older girl to escape from the life's miseries and disappointments. ...

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As we see in the short stories "Araby" (Joyce) and "Where are you going, where have you been?... Adolescence, obsession, and irrationality are some of the first words that come to mind to describe James Joyce's short story, "Araby.... In the story, James Joyce suggests the romantic inclination belongs to the world of the youthful, not the old, and it's doomed to fail in a world flawed by materialism, and a lack of beauty. ... James Joyce illustrates how sometimes people expect more out of life than reality can ultimately provide to us, thus causing the disappoint...

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Araby James Joyce's "Araby- is about a young boy who becomes infatuated with a neighbor's sister. ... For example, Joyce shows the reader just how preoccupied the mind of the narrator is- "I could not call my wandering thoughts together. ... He finally grasps this after his father is late coming home and when finally proceeds over to "Araby- to buy the gift. ... "Araby- reminds us that not everything is as real as it is displayed to be. ...

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John Updike's A & P and James Joyce's Araby share many of the same literary traits. ... What is even more telling of Updike's imitation of Joyce's Araby is the fact that the A & P title is hauntingly close in pronunciation to the original story's title. ... Specifically addressing details, it can be argued that Updike missed no opportunity to fashion A & P as much after Araby as possible. ... One considerable difference between Updike's A & P and Joyce's Araby is the gap between the young men's ages, with Updike's embarking upon his twenties while J...

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Innocence and Experience I want to write an essay on Innocence and Experience and how this theme related to the fiction story " Araby" by James Joyce. ... James Joyce uses setting to set the mood detached from its neighbours in a square ground" starts James Joyce his story. of the story. ... Writes James Joyce. ... The boy promises the girl to bring something from the Araby but his uncle is late. ... But when he got to the Araby the most of the stores already closed. ...

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