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After realizing he couldn’t afford the “porcelain vases and flowered tea-sets” (89). The young boy’s disappointment that his plan to charm his crush, was unsuccessful. He got so hooked on the idea of winning his girl’s heart, after giving her a present...He forgot about the reality of his economic situation. As an adolescent, he wasn't aware that the bazaar would be profit-driven, ran by non-Irish/Catholic people but people who are from outside of his world.
In Conclusion, the young boy in “Araby” didn’t realize his economic situation until he got exposure, outside of his neighborhood. This lead to his epiphany. His epiphany was at the bazaar when he went to look for the gift for Mangan’s sister. “I turned away slowly and walked down the middle of the bazaar. I allowed the two pennies to fall against the sixpence in my pocket”(89). In the end, the young boy learns the experience of true love and consequently the disappointments in

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