The Narrator In Araby And The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall

The narrator in “Araby” was just leaving childhood, leaving his childlike innocence behind, and entering a questioning time in his life. He struggled with the concept of liking someone, what it meant to like his friend’s sister and how he should demonstrate his affection. The emphasis of the story was on the childhood that the narrator had, playing in the neighborhood with his friends, and the shift that takes place as people grow older and they begin to focus on other things. This story also demonstrates the naïveté of the narrator by making his motivations for traveling to the bazaar seem superficially motivated. This is vastly different from the narrator from “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”. This narrator has lived her life and is approaching