As is the case of many boys this age, the unnamed narrator is obsessed with a girl but in a romantic, pure way. ... In this passage, the emotions of this boy pour out in all the anxiety that is boyhood. ... In one passage the narrator describes her in angelic terms. " She held one of the spikes, bowing her head towards me. ... Such a romantic notion bolsters his courage to ask his uncle to go. ...
The significance of the final passage is that the end of the story is one of complete surrender, of giving up. ... He was driven by his romantic dreams of the exotic brown girl and to join him in his fantasies by giving the girl a piece of that romantic, exotic Araby. ...
For example, Prue (the character in the second story) had almost the same type of dependency on a male romantic figure, as did the young girl in the first story. ... In this passage, I think that Munroe is trying to portray Prue leading a very normal life, hosting dinner parties and such, yet still underneath Prue's surface she hides empty, lonely feelings. ... In this passage, the young girl is simply saying that she feels she isn't as normal as the others girls, and is afraid of letting her mother down, much like Prue is afraid to show her friends, and dinner party guests her rea...
