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. ... As the two gentlemen and the girl have their conversation, which is them flirting; he realizes that life in Dublin is just ordinary and that the Mangan girl probably has no romantic interest in him. ...

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