Araby By James Joyce

The moment when a person realizes that their behavior isn’t has innocent as they believe it to be. In the story “Araby” by James Joyce the author portrays that the ideal dreams are far from reality. The narrator is the main character who is a young boy. The story takes place in the winter in Dublin Ireland. The boy lives on North Richmond Street and travels to a bazaar called Araby. The boy lives with his uncle and aunt as a tenant in a house where the former tenant, a priest died. The young boy is in love with a girl who is the older sister of one of the boys he plays with. Throughout the story the young boy who cannot understand his feelings mixed with his desires for his love for Mangan’s sister. A young boy shown in the story as a kind,
shy and very sensitive person but he is rather weak character. As the story progressing the young boy constantly stares at her and cannot control himself when she speaks to him. At the end of the story the young boy realized that his love for Mangan’s sister is purely sexual