James Joyce's Use Of Setting In The Araby

Setting in The Araby "Araby" is the story of a boy's first love and his first step into manhood. It is also a picture of a universe that rebels against the ideal and the dream. So, the setting in this story becomes the main object. The setting in "Araby" underlines the theme and the characters by using imagery of light and darkness. The whole point of the story is to show people that many human being often want more than what reality gives them and then they feel disappointed and sometimes heartbroken when they realize that whatever it was they wanted was not going to happen. The author, James Joyce, through out the story, uses gloomy and unclear references to make the boys reality of living in the town of Araby more dramatic. He uses dark and depressing situations to create the mood. In the opening paragraph of "Araby", North Richmond Street is brought in to us as "being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys
He waits all day in the house with its musty smell and useless objects that fill the room. The uncle doesn't realize that the boy was going through such anguish and very impatient about the whole thing that when he comes home he was like oh, I forgot, I‘m sorry. The uncle at first was reluctant to let the boy go by him self to Bazaar but then he relents and gives him money and the boys is off. The setting in Bazaar demonstrates the cruel, dirty reality of life which the boy blindly pays no attention to. The bazaar is dark and empty. Love in this setting stands for an empty, passing flirtation. The bazaar light are almost off because its about to close. This upsets the boy very much because he wants the place to be bright and open, but unfortunately for him, it is dark and closed. Then, that is when the boy finally realizes that life is not what he dreamt it to be. He finds himself angry at life and