Araby By James Joyce

The short story “Araby” by James Joyce, a famous Irish, and modernist writer of twentieth century, shows a boy's ongoing process of self-recognition/self-realisation through his disenchantment with the bleak reality of Dublin of the time. Brought up in the dreary and deadening surroundings in Dublin with his uncle and aunt in conservative Catholic cultures, the lonely, imaginative and sensitive boy finds no outlets to express his feelings. Torn between desire and repression, between reality and idealism, the boy seeks the ‘light’ and a relish of romance. Into this world of darkness appears a girl, Mangan's sister, who is the light in his romantic fantasy, someone who will lift him out of darkness he believes. The nameless boy, the protagonist,