Araby Literary Analysis

James Joyce’s short story “Araby” depicts an adolescent boy’s disillusionment- disillusionment with love and consequently reality. Brought up in dreary and dismal surroundings of Dublin with his uncle and aunt in an uninhabited house in restrictive catholic cultures, the boy seems to be lonely and repressed throughout the story. In the joyless and loveless daily lives of Dubliners, nowhere in his environment does he find an outlet for his feelings. He pines for the relish of romance and love. All of a sudden, he finds a beautiful girl, Mangan's sister, into his dark world and the very girl is the light in his romantic fantasy, someone who will lift him out of darkness, he thinks. In his mind, she is both a saint to be worshipped and a woman