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 of which he lived. Which word from this excerpt indicates the street's dead-end location and it's dullness?
North Richmond Street, being (BLIND) was a quite street except at the hour when the Christian Brother's School set the boys free. An uninhabited 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.
A) Detached
B) Ground
C) Conscious
D) Brown
[options are capitalized and underlined]