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Araby Questions
Dan Harras
AP Lit Period 6
Mr. Smyrk
October 13, 2011

Araby

1. The narrator wants to go to the bazaar because the girl that he yearns for wanted to go. She thinks that it is a god idea and could be fun and she is upset that she can’t go. The narrator says that he will buy something for her. 2. He arrives so late because he has a long dinner with Mrs. Mercer, a pawnbroker’s widow. Also because his uncle does not get home until later and he needs his uncle to give him money for the bazaar. 3. The narrator doesn’t buy anything for Mangan’s sister because when he gets to one of the open booths, he does not feel wanted by the lady who is selling the items. This turns him off of buying anything. 4. When the narrator arrives
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The narrator expects to find “Eastern Enchantment” at Araby. These expectations arose from the feelings that the narrator experienced from the words of the “brown-clad figure” . Her words gave the narrator a sense of joy, which he then associated with the bazaar that the girl was talking about. 6. The girl intoxicates the narrator because she is something that is different from the boring, dull life of Dublin. She does nothing to advance these feelings, all she does is talk about the bazaar that is happening, and this fills the narrator’s mind with ideas of the magnificent east and give the narrator feelings that he doesn’t normally experience. He sees something that he doesn’t see everyday, something that contrasts with the dull reality of Dublin. 7. James Joyce doesn’t mention the narrator’s affections until the third paragraph, because he is setting up the scene of a lackluster neighborhood that is nothing special. He does this to contrast the narrator’s feelings to everyday life. She is introduced as a part of the narrator’s everyday routine. She is apart of North Richmond Street because she is something the narrator sees everyday just like everything else in the street, however she has something that transcends the normality of everyday …show more content…

Light is used a lot to describe the girl that the narrator falls for. The light is often described as outlining her body and highlighting elegant parts of her, as if they were appealing to the narrator. Beauty is also used on the girl that the narrator likes. Her beauty is appealing because she contrasts the ugliness of the street they live on. Her beauty is not only physical, but also is caused by the feelings that she instills in the narrator. Vision can also be tied into the use of light. How the narrator visualizes the light hitting the girl shows that he sees her as something that the narrator admires. Vision is also used at Araby when the narrator sees that the seller is not interested in the narrator, and this turns the narrator off from buying

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