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Araby Essay

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Araby is a short story written by James Joyce. He used background of the darkness and the narrator’s feelings to show his idea about people’s lives in Irish society. Joyce had the image of a boy growing up in Dublin for a reflection of his own life. The story is about the constant struggle between ideals and reality. The vision of a boy who failed the mission toward Mangan’s sister is bitter and somber like Irish’s lives. From the beginning, James Joyce describes setting and atmosphere in Araby dark and hopeless. “North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boy free” (p 122). North Richmond is a metaphorical image and it presents the first view of the boy’s world, main
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