Question

In James Joyce's "Araby," the narrator uses light and dark imagery to set the tone and mood of the story and also to describe the nature of life on the street on which he lived. Which word from this excerpt indicates the street’s dead-end location and its dullness?

North Richmond Street, being (blind), was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An house of two storeys stood at the blind end, (detached) from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, (conscious) of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with (brown) imperturbable faces.


HELP ME PLEASE, IT CAN ONLY BE ONE

Answer 1

The first one, blind.
The second one, "detached", only talks about the house at the end and not the whole street in general. The "conscious" talks about the rest of the houses and doesn't do anything to bring out the street's dullness. And the "brown" does seem kind of dull, but not as much as blind because blind talks more about the deadness of the street in general.

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Answer 2

James Joyce's “Araby" is a short story based on an Irish adolescent emerging from boyhood fantasies into the harsh realities of everyday life in his country.

Blind street is one of the themes indicates the street's dead-end location and its dullness. Dublin's North Richmond Street is a dead end in the story and in real life. Joyce suggests with the word "Araby" that the boys playing in the street are going nowhere. They will grow up to live in the same dreary Dublin, with its dreary weather, dreary people, and dreary houses.