`` Araby `` By James Joyce And The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock

In the short story “Araby”, James Joyce uses several tones to create and add depth to the experiences he and his character face. Tones such as gloomy and pessimistic; excited and hopeful; and disillusioned and somber are all used to convey and assist in the portrayal of the author’s experiences.

Araby is a short story by James Joyce about a young boy who is infatuated a young woman who is the older sister of one of his friends. He watches her from afar and believes that his feelings are true love. He lacks the confidence to speak to her or confide in anyone else. The narrator speaks of her as if she were the most beautiful and wondrous human on earth, however, he does not realize that he is in love with the thought of her and not necessarily her.

In his short story "Araby", James Joyce portrays a character who strives to achieve a goal and who comes to an epiphany through his failure to accomplish that goal. Written in the first person, "Araby" is about a man recalling an event from his childhood. The narrator's desire to be with the sister of his friend Mangan, leads him on a quest to bring back a gift from the carnival for the girl. It is the quest, the desire to be a knight in shining armor, that sends the narrator to the carnival and it's what he experienced and sees at the carnival that brings him to the realization that some dreams are just not attainable.

Identity plays an important role in a person’s life. It determines how a person lives, acts, communicates, and defines themselves in the world around them. During this semester, we have read a handful of short stories that have to do with an individual’s identity. Three of those stories include, “The Metamorphosis,” by Franz Kafka; “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” by Herman Melville; and “Orientation,” by Daniel Orozco. Each of these short stories gives examples of how your work can influence a person’s identity and attempt to remove the personal factor from everyday life.

A&P by John Updike and Araby by James Joyce are two short stories that have multiple differences and similarities. A&P is about a teenager and his lust for young ladies and Araby is about a young boy who had a crush on a older girl. I will be comparing and contrasting the portrayal of women, love and epiphany in the two short stories A&P and Araby.

of himself in his native country. Araby is described as a big hall with the greater

James Joyce’s short stories “Araby” and “The Dead” both depict self-discovery as being defined by moments of epiphany. Both portray characters who experience similar emotions and who, at the ends of the stories, confront similarly harsh realities of self-discovery. In each of these stories, Joyce builds up to the moment of epiphany through a careful structure of events and emotions that leads both protagonists to a redefining moment of self-discovery.

Love that is unobtainable is the worst kind of heart break. In the story Araby by James Joyce a little boy who lives at the end of the block falls in love with an older girl. He has never talked to her before until that one day. That day she asked him if he could go to the market for her because she was busy. He became so excited and waited watching the clock all day until his uncle could give him money. When time finally came he ran to the market place, but it was mostly closed, one booth was lit but the sales lady wasn’t paying attention much. He left the market place empty handed and upset of a love that was impossible to get. His attitude changes from hopeful to despair. In the short story Araby James Joyce uses point of view, setting and the characters to paint a picture.

Light has almost always been used to represent hope and used for foreshadowing an opportunity after something bad has happened. Darkness has also always represented despair. James Joyce and James Baldwin expand on each of these words with these specific connotations in their short stories. “Araby” by James Joyce follows along with a boy on his quest to buy something for a girl he loves who is much older than him. On his quest, there are examples of light and darkness to represent hope for romantic love and the realization of his inappropriate observations which led to darkness and confusion. “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin follows the relationship of the narrator and his brother, who just got out of jail for his use of heroin. At the beginning, the narrator doesn’t support Sonny’s dream of becoming a jazz pianist and by the end of the story, the narrator finally sees who Sonny is and what he is made out of when he watches him perform. In both stories, light and darkness are used to represent hope and despair, but while “Araby” ends in complete darkness due to the narrator’s religious epiphany that came through his observations of Mangan’s sister, “Sonny’s Blues” ends in lightness due to the narrator’s epiphany that ignites the restoration between two brothers.

Prufrock is a lonely man. In the poem, there is no evidence of any relationship outside of the one he has with himself. He makes references to "…restless nights in one-night cheap hotels" and "women [that] come and go." He desires intimate relationships, yet lacks the courage and self-confidence to even begin to pursue love. His humanity and dignity cannot fully be realized without it.

There is nothing as good as securing an achievement in life. The feeling one gets in succeeding puts a smile on the faces of many. In most cases, it calls for celebrations with less focus on the hurdles and obstacles that one had gone through in becoming successful. Many are the times that our spirits have aroused in a joyful mood or a dance out of impulse for a job well done. It could be struggling academically and finally graduating with honors. It could be spending many months looking for a job and getting hired by one of the best companies in the country or finally marrying the dream spouse! When a person is about to succeed in something, there is a feeling of anticipation that usually comes. It can be a wonderful experience full of joy or a horrible, hellish chamber full of uncertainty and despair. This paper discusses how different characters in the short stories “Araby” and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" are prisoners of anticipation. It shows how it stifles the characters’ ability to live life to the fullest.

     In "Araby" James Joyce explores the theme that adulthood is not always what it seems. The narrator in the story is the main character and he demonstrates this theme when he falls in love with the girl in his neighborhood. In the beginning the young boy is too shy to express his feeling towards her. Later in the story he tells her of a present that he is going to bring her from the bazzar. Lastly he realizes that he has failed and now has lost his chance with this girl and is "driven by anguish and derided by vanity" (Joyce).

Originating from the Latin verb “adolescere”, adolescence is the period in which an individual develops an identity and personal autonomy in the pursuit of comfortable affiliations, goals and convictions. In the Carson McCullers’s story “Sucker” two young characters struggle with their transition to adulthood. The narrator Pete, is 16, and the older of the two boys by about three years. The stories action covers an extended flashback in which Pete reflects on his relationship with his cousin Sucker, who has lived with him since his “folks were killed in a wreck when he was a baby” (McCullers 2). Pete generally treats sucker poorly causing the latter to isolate himself, however, once the former falls for a girl named Maybelle their

The short story “Araby” by James Joyce is a young boy who has such an infatuation for his friend Mangan sister, he begins to idolize her as if she was a saint. This is when the idea of love and desire come into play. He simply can’t stop thinking about her and sees her in a godly like way. As the story begins to unfold the realization that the young boy doesn 't quite understand the concept of the illusion and the reality of what Mangan’s sister really means to him. The young boy realizes that his love and desire go hand in hand with the illusion and reality he has for Mangan’s sister. As well as the connection the author James Joyce brings to this short story “ Araby” represents how Joyce views these same ideas of Love, Desire, Illusion and Reality.

However, throughout the poem there is very little mention of Prufrock’s actual feelings about the girl; the poem is almost entirely the envisioning of what might happen if the man were to profess his feelings, or he were not to. It is the transcribed decision making process of a man who is in love deciding whether or not to confess to his lady- not necessarily focusing on the man being in love. This is exemplified in the second half of the poem (beginning on line