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 free."(Joyce 2112) ....
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