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- wants only one thing, simply to get the attention of the...

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In the short stories "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway and "Araby" by James Joyce we see that love is the conflict presented in both stories. ... In "Araby" a young boy is experiencing his first feelings of love. ... At the end of the story when he arrives at the bazaar as it is closing down and he describes, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger" (Joyce, Pg. 362). ... Both the boy from "Araby" and Jig from "Hills Like White Elephants...

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In two short stories "My Oedipus Complex" by James Joyce and "Araby" by Frank O"Conner gives great examples of how a boy from each story goes through a hard situation that gets resolves at the end of the story. ... While in the story "Araby"there is a boy who is likely around the age of twelve who thinks he has met his first love. ... Both Larry and the boy in "Araby" show strong feelings towards a certain someone in each story. ... The boy in "Araby" has feelings for his friend's sister which he has never felt before for anybody. ... While the boy in "Araby" feels he is now a step abov...

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Much like Gabriel in James Joyce's in "The Dead", part of a series of stories in Dubliners. ... James Joyce uses snow to reflect his shield or detachment from the people around him. ... James Joyce has similar themes in his other Dubliner stories "Araby" and "Eveline". ... The young boy, in the story "Araby", realizes that his intense love for a mysterious girl was "driven and derided by vanity"(30). ... James Joyce had little faith in love. ...

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Comparing the two stories, "A&P" by John Updike and "Araby" by James Joyce, there are cases of explicit and implied goals that differ with each other. ... In the story "Araby", the concept of explicit and implicit also implies to what the main character does. ... At first he was shy and was too nervous to confront her until one day she asks the narrator if he planning to go to Araby. ... The narrator's explicit goal was to try to buy the gift from his view of Araby however the implicit goal was actually easy to realize which the narrator was trying to win h...

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