Dubliners

Loss of Innocence in Araby      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

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

Stress can be paralyzing. The condition of emotional strain resulting from detrimental circumstances is sometimes so consuming that its victims are no longer capable of moving. This is mental paralysis. People that experience mental paralysis are so damaged by their life experiences that they cannot hardly act or make decisions on their own. In James Joyce’s “Eveline,” Eveline’s sad life constantly reminds her of deaths, troubles her with difficulties, and begs her to leave, and she is presented

A person who feels they need to accomplish something needs to have the tenacity to complete it. They would feel satisfied once they do, and discontented otherwise. For an external source to destroy significant progress, anger will be conveyed. In some cases, it can change a person’s perspective on reality. As they continue to age, their outlook would mature to accept reality as it is. James Joyce’s short story, “Araby,” centers on an unnamed boy who is on a romantic quest for his crush; a journey

‘The Dead’ begins and ends in two entirely different places. What begins as a harmless portrait of simple human interactions, morphs slowly into an examination of the nature of time and memory. James Joyce uses every level of his writing in order to reveal this complex paradox. He breaks down the boundaries of life and death, of time and memory, by breaking down the structure of his grammar. He exposes the ambiguities of existence through the ambiguities of pronouns. In the midst of this acrobatic

Frequently referred to as an age of doubt, the Modernist period of literature was characterized by authors who sought to challenge the notion of a literary text containing a single truth or meaning. Modernist writers went against societal and cultural customs by questioning literature and focusing on the individual experience of a text. As a result, much of modern literature destabilizes meaning through the use of ambiguity and suspense. Accordingly, ambiguity plays a central role in James Joyce’s

Araby In the short novel, Araby by James joyce which was one of the most influential writers in the modernist era of the early 20th century. In Araby, Joyce highlights a young boy who describes the North Dublin Street where he lives in a house with his aunt and uncle. The narrator recalls when he and his friends used to run through the dark muddy lanes of the house to avoid his uncle or when Mangan’s sister came out on the doorstep to call her brother in to his tea. He is obsessed with the young

James Joyce uses several strategies in the first paragraph of “Araby” that help illustrate and reflect the dark and gloomy mood that carries the theme of the short story. The passage begins with the description of the quiet North Richmond Street. By phrasing the end of school for the Christian boys as “(setting) the boys free” the author creates an image of rowdy boys being released into the street, therefore shaping the “quiet” image of the setting when the boys are in school. This illustrates the

The speaker in James Joyce’s “Araby” has an epiphany that changes his view on the world around him. The short story is about a boy that travels to a bazaar to buy a present for a girl he has a crush on. The journey doesn’t go the way he expected it to go and he has becomes upset and frustrated. The speaker of “Araby” starts out as youth that is ignorant of the world around him and then he has an epiphany that is heightened by irony and presents a universal theme about life. The speaker of “Araby”

In "Araby" by James Joyce, the narrator uses vivid imagery in order to express feelings and situations. The story evolves around a boy's adoration of a girl he refers to as "Mangan's sister" and his promise to her that he shall buy her a present if he goes to the Araby bazaar. Joyce uses visual images of darkness and light as well as the exotic in order to suggest how the boy narrator attempts to achieve the inaccessible. Accordingly, Joyce is expressing the theme of the boys exaggerated desire through