Araby Adulthood

In the story “Araby” the protagonist is portrayed by the author to seem young, which limited his ability to see past his dull, dead-end neighborhood. The author explains the boy’s carefree mindset by describing how the protagonist and his friends would run through the back lanes of the houses and hide in the shadows when they reached the street again.

“Araby,” is a story of emotional passion carefully articulated by the author, James Joyce, to mark the end of childhood and the start of adolescence. It is told from the perspective of a young boy who is filled with lust for his friend, Mangan’s, sister. He lives in a cheerless town on a street hosting simply complacent families who own brown faced houses that stare vacantly into one another. The boy temporarily detaches himself from this gloomy atmosphere and dwells on the keeper of his affection. Only when he journeys to a festival titled Araby, does he realize that his attempt at winning the heart of Mangan’s sister has been done in an act of vanity. Joyce takes advantage of literary elements such as diction and imagery to convey an at times dreary and foolishly optimistic tone.

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. Love is in the air like the aroma of a fresh lit candle lingering in a room. People are consistently looking and finding love each and every day, in all sorts of ways and places. In Araby written by James Joyce the story of a boy who falls in love with one of his playmate’s sister. Love is seen all throughout the book, making this book have relatable connections to the reader; due to its relevance in the world today. Araby is a prime example of a child hitting puberty, and starting to fall in love. In this book, Joyce shows us how love can make one change their ways and give someone purpose.

I chose to compare and contrast the two stories of Araby and Barn Burning for several reasons, many of which I will call upon later in the essay, but what predominately interested myself in these specific stories are the that they both touch upon specific tenants of growing up as a boy and the emergence into adulthood. In Araby, it is clear that the boy is entering adulthood as he is aflame with the insatiable desire for affection which takes form as a young girl he is infatuated with. Meanwhile in “Barn Burning”, the age of the boy is younger than the previous but is also riddled with the coming of age paradigm, notably in the awareness of the faults of our parents and the realization that although they may be family, not all people are inherently superior in morality, nor are

Although James Joyce short story “Araby” might be seen as a straightforward love story which ends up in failure, it discusses more issues than just love and failure. The concept of capitalism and materialism are also depicted in the story through the use of young boy who became immersed in a culture that believes in capitalism. Through this, the readers experience a unique journey a poor and discouraged person.

Coming-of-age is a chapter that every individual must inevitably trek through in order to grow and mature into one’s own self. In John Updike’s A&P and James Joyce’s Araby, the theme of growth permeates throughout both narratives as their respective protagonists fabricate an ideal world from their own naive perspectives, only to shed their ignorant fantasies about how they believe to understand that the world can bend to their decisions to truly understand the cruelty behind world they live in: reaching maturity through the loss of innocence. Dismissing the pragmatic aspects of life can lead to the downfall of a person’s ideals as they eventually come to the realization that their dreams are impractical, and even impossible to bring to

In the short story Araby by James Joyce, the story is told in a unnamed first person narrative of an adolescent boy who is infatuated with the

"Araby" tells the story of an adolescent boy's initiation into adulthood. The story is narrated by a mature man reflecting upon his adolescence and the events that forced him to face the disillusioning realities of adulthood. The minor charac­ters play a pivotal role in this initiation process. The boy observes the hypocrisy of adults in the priest and Mrs. Mercer; and his vain, self-centered uncle introduces him to another disillusioning aspect of adulthood. The boy's infatuation with the girl ultimately ends in disillusion­ment, and Joyce uses the specific example of the boy's disillusionment with love as a metaphor for disillusionment with life itself. From the beginning, the boy

The short story “Araby” written by James Joyce is narrated in first person point of view. However, the way the story is written, it is hard to envision that the story is being told by a young boy. The narrator’s use of such a high level of formal diction makes the story feel as if it is being narrated by someone older. The young boy likes to recall and dwell on his thoughts, ideas, surroundings and feelings. The way he reminisces on the events in the story enables us to picture in our mind how he is dealing with his infatuation and love of his friend, Mangan’s sister and life in the real world.

In her story, "Araby," James Joyce concentrates on character rather than on plot to reveal the ironies inherent in self-deception. On one level "Araby" is a story of initiation, of a boy’s quest for the ideal. The quest ends in failure but results in an inner awareness and a first step into manhood. On another level the story consists of a grown man's remembered experience, for the story is told in retrospect by a man who looks back to a particular moment of intense meaning and insight. As such, the boy's experience is not restricted to youth's encounter with first love. Rather, it is a portrayal of a continuing problem all through life: the incompatibility of the ideal, of the dream

The story of “Araby” is that of a young boy probably about the age of adolescence who is having his first crush on his friends sister. Although the boy seems to have no intention of realistically perusing the situation when the girl

Although "Araby" is a fairly short story, author James Joyce does a remarkable job of discussing some very deep issues within it. On the surface it appears to be a story of a boy's trip to the market to get a gift for the girl he has a crush on. Yet deeper down it is about a lonely boy who makes a pilgrimage to an eastern-styled bazaar in hopes that it will somehow alleviate his miserable life. James Joyce's uses the boy in "Araby" to expose a story of isolation and lack of control. These themes of alienation and control are ultimately linked because it will be seen that the source of the boy's emotional distance is his lack of control over his life.

Change and growth often leads people to face challenges or take chances in their life and those challenges might impact their maturity or way of being in multiple aspects. Herbert Otto claims, “Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” In other words, Otto believes a person will experience new developments and alterations by trying out different tasks in his/her daily life. These two short stories will try to illustrate Otto’s quotation and emphasize the lives of different characters in different settings around the world, undertaking risks and not knowing the outcome until it is all over. “The Araby,” written by James Joyce, takes place in Dublin, Ireland

In James Joyce’s short story "Araby," the main character is a young boy who confuses obsession with love. This boy thinks he is in love with a young girl, but all of his thoughts, ideas, and actions show that he is merely obsessed. Throughout this short story, there are many examples that show the boy’s obsession for the girl. There is also evidence that shows the boy does not really understand love or all of the feelings that go along with it.

Expectations and reality consistently oppose one another for numerous situations in one’s lifetime. Humans tend to desire something and act to obtain it. Although, what is expected may not always occur thus the result is mostly disappointment but, a lesson is usually learnt. This is explicitly presented in the short story “Araby”, by James Joyce, which is a short story released in 1914 as a collection comprised of 15 stories named Dubliners. Through the first-person point of view of a boy, the story emphasizes a prime example of how reality does not agree with expectations. This unnamed boy transitions from a playful individual to a person in love with the sister of his closest friend.