Answer:
James Joyce's "Araby" delineates a serious, stale air. The road where the storyteller and his companions play is a visually impaired, or an impasse. The houses are "dark colored," with "imperturbable countenances," the greenhouses are "trickling," the bike siphon is corroded.
It begins off glad, euphoric, and fantastic at that point transforms into something grim, dull, and discouraging.