Scarica Araby from Dubliners e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! ARABY Araby's key theme is frustration, as the main protagonist deals with the limits imposed on him by his situation. It is in fact the story, told in first person, of a boy and his infatuation with the sister of a friend, Mangan who lives opposite his house . He is grappling with his first adulescent feelings narrated through a brilliant interior monologue : the falling in love that absorbs every thought, the fear of revealing one's feelings and that these are never answered, but also the first disappointments and with them the first frustrations and epiphanic realization that love is only an illusion destined to vanish. In this case, the epiphany takes over at the end of the story, when the boy overhears a trite conversation between an English girl working at the bazaar and two young men, and he suddenly realizes that he has been losing the sense of reality. It dawns on him that the bazaar, which he thought would be so exotic and exciting, is really only a commercialized place to buy things. Furthermore, he now realizes that Mangan's sister is just a girl who will not care whether he fulfills his promise to buy her something at the bazaar. He realizes that his sense that he could truly escape to these “exotic” places – both the market and love of Mangan’s sister – was vanity, a mistaken belief in his own uniqueness. And, further, the fact that the Araby market exists at all, and that young men and women flirt within it to pass the time, suggests that even his desire for an escape from the everyday is itself common and everyday.So he leaves Araby feeling ashamed and upset. This epiphany signals a change in the narrator from an innocent, idealistic boy to an adolescent dealing with the harsh realities of life. This is one of the stories in which it is easily identifiable Joyce's precision for details, such as the names of the places and material description characterized by great realism. The language of the story is very referential and simple, with the use of many rhetorical figures, also to emphasize the negativity, the impossibility of change and therefore the paralysis in which the characters are destined to live. In particular, the paralysis occurs with the realization that his romantic fantasy will not come true. Th At the same time, the sort of idolizing of Mangan’s sister that the narrator engages in would have been seen as deeply irreligious by serious Catholics. The idolization of anything or anyone above God was considered a kind of blasphemy.
