Mangan's Use Of Symbolism In The Araby

In the Araby, we can appreciate a feeling of darkness surrounding the street where the main character lives. The neighbors tend to be dreary, the weather tends to be cold, and the environment tends to be loneliness. This paragraph says, “When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the color of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses….”, it describes the depressive atmosphere the narrator normally perceives of where he lives. But not everything is so dark for the narrator, his hidden love for
His reaction is quite awkward, and that is comprehensive taking into account the description we already made about the narrator. What comes next is another aspect it is good to analyze. Since the Mangan´s sister mentions the Araby and what she likes it too much, he offers to bring her something (a gift) due to she is not able to go. Here the aspect to analyze is what a human being is able to do in order to get a minimum chance of getting a girl. In the case of the narrator, he has a big pressure because he believes that bringing her that gift makes him create a connection with her. This paragraph represent how important this conversation is for him, “What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read”. Psychological speaking, the Araby and the gift represent that motivation he is looking for, and he knows that if he fails in that “mission”, his minimum hopes with his love will suddenly