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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