Question

Review and Assess of the “Araby” Story.

Thinking About the Selection
1. Respond: Have you ever had doubts or ambivalent feelings
about a promise like those of the narrator? Explain.
2. (a) Recall: What does Mangan's sister do to make a trip to
the bazaar so important to the narrator? (b) Analyze: Describe
three scenes that establish the narrator's feelings for her.
3. (a) Recall: Describe the narrator's experience at Araby.
(b) Analyze Causes and Effects: What features of the
Araby bazaar conflict with the narrator's expectations?
4. (a) Evaluate: Did you find the narrator's descriptions of his
neighborhood childhood colorful, even romantic? Explain.
(b) Connect: Do his descriptions make the ordinary world as
exciting and interesting as the world he hopes to find at
the bazaar?
5. (a) Draw conclusion: What has the narrator lost by the end of the story? (b) Draw conclusion: What might have gained?
6. Apply: Should the dreams of youth be protected, or can a disillusioning experience like the narrators teach valuable lesson? Explain.

Answer 1

This means that the young narrators of “The Sisters,” “An Encounter,” and “Araby” all tell their own stories and refer to themselves as “I.” All of the other stories in the collection are told in the third person, which means that the narrators are not part of the story and refer to the characters as “he” or “she.” ...

The conflict in Joyce's "Araby" surround the protagonist's struggle with money and the lack of it, culminating in his realization at the end...

The main moral/theme of Araby is loss of innocence. As the young narrator gains feelings for Mangan's Sister, he has trouble realizing what these feelings mean. The boy admires her so greatly while he has only spoken to her once or twice which shows immaturity.