Araby

 Araby

by James Joyce

Rating: 7/10

Araby is a one of the best English stories. It's about going to a bazaar party at the request of an adolescent boy's favorite girl, but the plot is simple, but the content included is not like that at all. That love wasn’t a simple love. It was a first love ever for the boy. To the boy who lives in a dull neighborhood, Mangan’s sister is the object of his lover. The bazaar she asked for will also be enchanted by boy. But it all conflicts with his ordinary routine, and what he eventually arrives at the bazaar is just a cold shopkeeper and a shabby reality. A boy out of his fantasy realizes that even the girl he liked wouldn’t fall short of his imagination.

The story ends not with topics like “ Matter is not important for love” or “I don’t see anything precious,” but rather with an empty scene in which the protagonist soberly accepts reality. The boy is no longer an adolescent boy surrounded by fantasies, but a slender beast hit the wall of reality.

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