Araby is one of fifteen short stories that together make up James Joyce's collection, Dubliners.
Araby mainly tells about a boy who secretly loves a neighboring girl, Mangan’s sister. This simple and pure love can be revealed through his action, his self-narration and his mentality, which can be best revealed in such sentences as “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door.”, “Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.”, and “My eyes were often full of tears and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom.”, etc.
From the language style of the novel, we could identify a figure of an adult narrator: a grown-up in recalling his youth. Although