Mood Of Araby By James Joyce
Young children are usually thought of as innocent little beings who do not have any authentic emotional issues in their lives. In Araby, James Joyce explores that thought with a story of a young boy falling for a girl. The boy in this story is a light-hearted child that loves playing in the neighborhood with his friends. One of his friends, Mangan, has an older sister and all of the boys are infatuated with her appearance. The sister desperately wants to attend a bazaar named Araby. “She could not go, she said, because there would be a retreat that week in her convent” (Joyce n.p.). The boy offers to go and purchase something for her. As he eats dinner a few weeks later, he anxiously awaits the arrival of his uncle and the money to attend the
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This can be inferred by the increasing amount of gruesome descriptions such as sombre houses, silent street, dark muddy lanes, and feeble lanterns. This mood is created to showcase how the boy views his life before he first spoke to Mangan’s sister. The moment Mangan’s sister is first introduced in the story the mood transforms from sombre and bleak into bright and beautiful. “She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the light from the half-opened door” (Joyce n.p.). This is the sentence directly after Mangan’s sister is brought into the story. It is also on of the first times light is used in this sense. After he agrees to go in her honor and bring something back, the mood becomes anxious as he awaits the day he can go to Araby. “At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read” (Joyce n.p.). This sentence shows how the narrator can only focus on the girl and how this is beginning to interfere with his schooling. He knows that the day is growing near and he is getting steadily more and more excited to attend the bazaar. Once he finally arrives at Araby, the moods changes over into a sense of everything being foreign from the people to the dialect even to the bazaar itself. The narrator finally begins to understand that his intentions for attending the bazaar might have been more naive than he originally thought. This realization signifies his sense of lost youth and the beginning of entrance into
This can be inferred by the increasing amount of gruesome descriptions such as sombre houses, silent street, dark muddy lanes, and feeble lanterns. This mood is created to showcase how the boy views his life before he first spoke to Mangan’s sister. The moment Mangan’s sister is first introduced in the story the mood transforms from sombre and bleak into bright and beautiful. “She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the light from the half-opened door” (Joyce n.p.). This is the sentence directly after Mangan’s sister is brought into the story. It is also on of the first times light is used in this sense. After he agrees to go in her honor and bring something back, the mood becomes anxious as he awaits the day he can go to Araby. “At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read” (Joyce n.p.). This sentence shows how the narrator can only focus on the girl and how this is beginning to interfere with his schooling. He knows that the day is growing near and he is getting steadily more and more excited to attend the bazaar. Once he finally arrives at Araby, the moods changes over into a sense of everything being foreign from the people to the dialect even to the bazaar itself. The narrator finally begins to understand that his intentions for attending the bazaar might have been more naive than he originally thought. This realization signifies his sense of lost youth and the beginning of entrance into