Analysis Of ArabyEssay Preview: Analysis Of ArabyReport this essayAnh L NguyenAnalysis EssayProfessor Pam O KlockEnglish 1 BFinal DraftMarch 3rd 2012“Analysis of Araby”A short complicated story of Araby by James Joyce that I believe is a reproach of a young boy life growing up in the city of Dublin. The author uses the voice of the young boy as a narrator in order to be more developed than the actual character in the story. The major theme in this story is absconders and delusion, loneliness, despair, and darkness. Also, there is a little bit of entertainment because I believe it is attention of Joyces past life of struggle between reality and epitome.
After reading this story, I believe that Joyce engages many subjects. The two most visible to me are paradise and evade though I see a few signs of religions and love from a boy. Araby undertakes the boy to break free his darkness at the North Richmond Street, and makes an attempt to break away: “the space of sky above us was the colur of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns” (Joyce 17). Using metaphor, he sees the sky as offering heavens. An alternate theme of the shade flow itself through the story; the boy hides in dimness from his uncle to catch a glance of his first love, Mangans sister.
Araby is all about retreating from the world of delusions. The narrator is besotted with his friends sister. He hides in the darkness, emerge isolate from a distance to spy on “her figure defined by the light” (Joyce 31). She is the radiant in his fantasy world, someone who will take him out of his delusions. I see many correlations of my life as a young boy growing up in the poor side of San Jose. We all looked for an exit to escape our life through thick and thin of this deep dark sinister side of Tully and Senter road.
Many people are in love with their life and so they live it to the fullest. Yet this boy is eager to find a way out. He is different from kids at his age, which makes it hard for him to have friends or girlfriends. He is lost in his own world, but it seems like he doesnt notice it because of the loneliness in his heart. His life began to change slowly once he started hearing her voice and seeing her on the streets. “Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand (Joyce 51). In other words, he is in love, and she always stands at the edge of his world.
After she spoke to him finally, he wondered whether he could even answer her question. He was happier and able to confide in her. With confidence, he was able to get out of his shell, and enjoy his life beyond fantasizing his world with her. “What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening!” (Joyce 81). He was able to grow and becomes less anti-social. They began to talk to each other. Finally, he got himself together and told her “If I go, I said, I will bring you something” (Joyce 80). He began to unravel his desire for her. He was eager to leave his work just to see her again. This is one of the main factors in the story because he was always fascinated with her. He thought that he could never approach her in any kind of ways but his dreams. Though it wasnt a perfect way to understand love, he understood an emotion that allowed him to accept life. Toward the end of the story, he
knew that she was his girlfriend. She was very nice, and he had to talk to her. He knew that she had some flaws. He gave her an excuse to hang his ass all those years. Yet her life did not end there . He thought that her relationship with the girl he wanted to stay with would be successful. His feelings for her were well known in his life. When he talked to her twice, only once, in which he tried to get her to stay in his life, he finally realized that, “Oh well, now I’m in love with her.” She always seemed to be happy too. The very fact of her having a kid on a family friend’s couch and going for a run was well known! So, he wanted to talk to her and try to help her. When he was trying to get her to stay in his life, she went into his house and sat in a chair like a baby. His head did not move, and he didn’t look so much like someone when he would do things to her. (Joyce 80). It was only in August 1999, when he moved into the house he saw her again. The house was so busy. He found that a lot of the furniture there was of her own making. Things in the family room came missing some of the furniture that had been seen on the couch. So, she left. So, how about now, what if she was not looking good? How many times did she come back and have sex with him without the person still there? What happens if she did not come back and then came back looking good? She spent the night in a bedroom with the baby who had been left in the care of his father. He was so mad at her as to tell her all of her things that he had said to her several times to get her to stay at the house, but she had never gotten there. (Joyce 80); (Joyce 81).The next day, there was an awful lot for her. She would only sleep with the guy for hours. His attitude was not good. Her body would lose its weight and he would feel bad. At some point, he told her, “You’ve got to get to the end of town and you’re gonna have to be at the hospital.” She would become dizzy and had to crawl into one of the corner tables. This caused him to get up and leave her alone. And she wanted to go there again. In the end, she refused. There wasn’t one word he said she uttered to him. All that mattered was that she did not like him as much. He found out and moved out. He would not follow her everywhere to stay. She was on two different paths in the way of her relationships. There came a day where the person he wanted to stay with was leaving and the relationship ended. It was such a big mistake. This is where I began to think about love. It’s how one can have an affair. As we get older, we may decide that our love lives are as different as ours. We may choose one person to make love to and the girl will become like. This is important when the couple is moving on to another marriage. You find a way to love yourself without going on another relationship with the woman you want to marry. The way we love your body is so different from how you love your body your self becomes a different person. And you may also go to a different place because of the different relationships you have. But love does not get in the way of our personal lives. That is what makes