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Essay Archive - James Joyce's "Araby"
James Joyce's "Araby"
In James Joyce's short story "Araby," several different micro-cosms are
evident. The story demonstrates adolescence, maturity, and public life in Dublin
at that time. As the reader, you learn how this city has grown to destroy this
young boy's life and hopes, and create the person that he is as a narrator.
In "Araby," the "mature narrator and not the naive boy is the story's
protagonist."(Coulthard) Throughout the story this is easily shown, especially
when it refers to "the hour when the Christian Brothers' school set the boys
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