Araby

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 Author:

James Joyce(1882- 1941)

1902 – moved to Paris to pursue
A middle-class
medical school -> writing
Catholic family in Rathgar
1903 – returned to Dublin (met (suburb of Dublin)
Nora Barnacle – his future wife)
February 2, 1882

1905 – 1915: lived in Rome and

Triest, Italy His father’ s a drinker => family’s
prosperity dwindled => move to
impoverished area of North
1915 – 1919: lived in Zurich, Dublin
Switzerland
BACKGROUND
Attended a prestigious Jesuit
World War I – World War II: lived school
in Paris
Went on study Philosophy and
1940: Return to Zurich Languages at University College,
(Joyce died in 1941) Dublin
ARABY
Based on his own experiences –
adolescent resident of Dublin (1894)

Narrator of Araby and Joyce

Like Unlike

– lived on North Richmond – Joyce was not an orphan

Street (No.17)
– present Dublin against
– undergoing a period of oppressive forces
self-discovery
North Richmond Street
The unnamed boy lives with his
uncle and aunt

Desribed with negative adjective

“The other houses of the street,

conscious of decent lives within
them, gazed at one another with
brown imperturbable faces”
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ARABY “Nearly all the stalls were closed
and the greater part of the hall
was in darkness. I recognized the
silence like that which pervades a
church after the service”

The Abarian theme bazaar

The boy wants to get

something to Mangan’s
sister

He finally realizing how

naïve he was about the trip
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 CHACRACTERS

The unnamed boy The boy’s uncle and aunt Mangan’s sister
“ How he let his feeling “They don’t understand
The narrator
overtake hisof the and
mind story why it’s so for the boy to
Lives withhis
allowed hisbody
uncletoand
act on get The girl whom the boy is
Thetoboy’s
Araby”
guardian. attracted.
aunt.
it”
“romantic feeling towards The relationship is not
Become
Mangan’sinfatuated withhim
sister bring Give hope to the boy to
close
Mangan’s sister
to the bazaar” escape from his dull life.
Naïve and immature.

A
Summary
- The nameless narrator talk about his dull and boring life on
North Richmond Street. The former tenant of their house
was a priest who died.
- The young boy narrator sometimes looks at some of the
books that have been left behind. He is living with his aunt
and uncle.
- His friend named Mangan has a sister who he has a crush
on. Mangan and his sister live in a building across the
street.
- She often comes to the front of their house to call out her
brother, the moment the narrator cherish. He stealthily
watches her and waiting for her to leave in the morning so
he can follow her on part of his way to school.
 Mangan’s sister suddenly speaks to the
narrator one day and ask if he will go to
Araby, a Dublin bazaar. She can’t attend it
due to a religious retreat she is going on that
weekend. The narrator, having just
recovered from the shock of the
conversation, then offers to bring her
something from the bazaar.
 His aunt grant him the permission to go, and
he can’t concentrate on school for days. On
that morning of the Bazaar, he reminds his
uncle to return home early and give him the
train money.
 His uncle return home late that night and he has
already forgotten about the bazaar and it is also
quite late. But the young boy still wants to go
either ways, so he takes some money for the
train and leaves.
 He arrives at the bazaar only to realizes that it is
closing down and almost all of the stall has
already closed. He go to one stall that still open
by a woman but ends up buying nothing. The
light finally go out and he stands there angrily in
the deserted bazaar without buying anything for
Mangan’s sister.
Plot
Exposition
- The author introduce the character and describe boy's living area: “North Richmond Street,
being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the
boys free”. The author described the house where it was the boy's play ground and where
the priest had died. The author talked about how boring the boy's life is.
- Joyce also describe the boy's crush. He always wanted to talk to her, he remember her
figure and always spying on her: “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parfour
watching her door. The blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that i could
not be seen”. This shows that he is so obsessed with her. The author also told us that the boy
"had never spoken to her".
- The boy is physically attracted to her, and does not know how to respond, so naturally, his
heart guides him towards admiring her from a distance.
Rising Action
- Finally the girl talked to him. He did not know
what to say. When he finally gets to speak with
the girl, ask him if he would/can go to Araby:
"The boy forgot whether he said yes or no
probably because at the time it wasn't
important to him".
- The girl said it will be a splendid bazaar and
she really wanted to go but she had to retreat
that week in her convent.
- The boy told her if he go to Araby, he would
buy her something. The boy was not only
exited to go to Araby but he can't wait for it.
He wishes that time flies fast: “I had hardly
any patience with the serious work of life...”.
The boy also reminded his uncle that he
wished to go to Araby.
Climax
- He waited for his uncle to come home for some money. He waited so long and become restless for his uncle
to come back home wondered whether he will go or not: “I sat staring at the clock for some time and, when
its ticking began to irritate me, I left the room. I mounted the staircase and gained the upper part of the
house. The high, cold, empty, gloomy rooms liberated me and I went from room to room singing”.
- When his uncle finally arrived home, he asked him for some money for the bazaar but his uncle forgot
about it: “The people are in bed and after their first sleep now”/ “He asked me where I was going and, when
I told him a second time, he asked me did I know The Arab's Farewell to his Steed”.
- His aunt backs him up and forces him to give some money: “Can't you give him the money and let him go?
You've kept him late enough as it is”. He was so happy that he finally can go to Araby. After an intolerable
delay of the train, he arrived at the bazaar.
Falling Action
- When he arrives, he quickly walk around fast because he was afraid that the stores may be closed.
- He soon finds out that “Nearly all the stores are closed and the greater part of the hall was in darkness".
- We see him realize that the bazaar is near over, and how he yet again missed something he had desperately
waited for.
Resolution
- Araby was not what the boy expected. He believed that Araby would be a magical place (multiculturalism)
but to his disappointment, he only experiences something he sees very often in his hometown of Dublin,
Ireland.
- When he was in one of the stall, the lady of the stall great him with a rude voice tone. He was not pleased
with it because he was hoping that the people there are going to treat him nicely: “Observing me, the young
lady came over and asked me did I wish to buy anything. The tone of her voice was not encouraging; she
seemed to have spoken to me out of a sense of duty”
- He realized that it was a mistake for not thinking wisely about going to Araby. He did not plan his trip. He
just follows his heart. At the end, he was embarrassed with himself because of his silly mistake: “Gazing up
into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish
and anger”

B
Themes
Of Araby
 Coming of Age
An Adult Perspective

▣ The narrator is a grown man

▣ Mature language.
▣ Insights from an adult perspective.

This is a story about growing up

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 Coming of Age
A Budding Teen

▣ Suddenly, the things that used to matter to him now seem less important, and
he even begins to feel superior to his friends
▣ Changes in his interactions with authority figures: his aunt and uncle and his
master
He is learning to think independently and developing a more defiant personality.

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 Coming of Age
An Innocence Lost
▣ He failed to impress his crush
▣ He was alienated from his friends
▣ He lost interest in his studies.

The protagonist’s gained knowledge and

experience but loss his innocence.

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 Catholicism and Religion

▣ Often explains things through Catholic ideas and imagery.

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Catholcism and Religion
Imaginary

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 Catholicism and Religion

Religion Set Up False Ideals and Expections

Disappointment Lost Innocence

“Worshiping” Mangan’s sister Disappointed

Worshipping anything Disappointment.

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 Love and Sexuality
All-Boys Catholic Schools Blind Alley

Little to no experience with

girls
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 Love and Sexuality
Mangan’s sister

Physical Features:
“Her dress swung as she moved
her body and the soft rope of her
hair tossed from side to side.”
“I kept her brown figure always
in my eye.”
Poorly Defined Character

Other Information:
Name: None
Personal Information: None
Dialogue: None

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 Love and Sexuality


 Love
Vanity


Unique
Win Approval
Superior

Futhering Ego, Not That He Cares

Mangan’s Sister = Trophy

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 Stream of
Consciousness
 What is SoC?

Mimic Real-Life Thought Patterns

Allow authors to go deeper inside the mind of

character
Rapid Delivery
 
Abrupt Changes in
Topic

 Leap in Logic

Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance. On Saturday evenings when
my aunt went marketing I had to go to carry some of the parcels. We walked through the flaring
streets, jostled by drunken men and bargaining women, amid the curses of laborers, the shrill litanies
of shop-boys who stood on guard by the barrels of pigs' cheeks, the nasal chanting of street-singers,
who sang a come-all-you about O'Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles in our native land.
These noises converged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore my chalice
safely through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and
praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and
at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future.
I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of
my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers
running upon the wires.

Capitalization and Punctuation


Structure

An experiment for the style

An Experiment in this writing style

Literary devices
 Literary Device

Imagery Symbol

Irony
 Imagery
Definition:
“The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects,
actions, or ideas.”
 Usage
Locations discovered through the lens of
A dead-end town A boy experienced first-love children
"North Richmond Street, "I being blind, that
imagined wasIabore my chalice safely
"The career of our play brought us
quiet street except at the hour when the
through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to muddy lanes behind the
Christian Brothers' Schoolmy setlips
theatboys through the
free. in strange prayers and dark
moments
An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at did not houses, where we ran the gauntlet of the
praises which I myself understand. My
the blind end, detached from
eyesitswere often fullinof tearsrough
neighbours tribes
(I could from the cottages, to the back
not tell
a square ground. The other houses
why) and of
at the
times a flood fromdoorsmyofheart
the dark dripping gardens where
street, conscious of decentseemed
lives within
to pourthem, odours
itself out into arose from the ashpits, to the dark
my bosom.”
gazed at one another with brown odorous stables where a coachman
imperturbable faces.”
smoothed and combed the horse or shook
music from the buckled harness.”
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 Function

▣ Portrayal of the setting through the eyes of the main character.

▣ In order to stimulate the readers sensory perception to help
them visualize what James Joyce had in mind when he wrote
Araby.
▣ Another reason is to meticulously write about his most
beloved and most hated city of Dublin.

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 Irony
Definition:
“A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily
designates one thing is used to designate another.”

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 Usage

“Remembering with difficulty why I

had come, I went over to one of the
stalls and examined porcelain vases
“ “I allowed the two pennies to fall
against the sixpence in my pocket.
and flowered tea-sets. “ I heard a voice call from one end
of the gallery that the light was
out. The upper part of the hall was
now completely dark.”

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 Function
“I could not
“Gazing upcall
intomy
thewandering
darknessthoughts together. I had
I saw myself
hardly
as any patience
a creature drivenwith
andthederided
seriousby
work of life which,
now thatand
vanity; it stood between
my eyes me and
burned withmyanguish
desire, seemed to
me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.”
The boy and
 
anger.”
was obsessed with goin
g to the bazaar to impre
ssed Mangan’s sister.
Only to be met with dis
appointment.

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 Symbol
Definition:
“Anything that represents something else, either directly or
indirectly.”

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 Usage

Light and darkness Catholicism Araby bazaar

"her figure defined by the “A priest”, “apple-tree”, The boy’s obsession. The
light from the half-opened “retreat in her convent”, beauty, mystique, and
door” “Christian Brothers' romance.
“All my senses seemed to School”,etc A disappointment in
desire to veil themselves” reality.
 Function
▣ To
Thepaint a picture
apple-tree of the the
symbolize
main
garden character
of Eden as or isolated
the gain of
▣ and
Arabyin
knowledge. thetitle“dark”
is the and alsowhile
In this the boy’showever
story goal and
obsession throughout the story. It symbolize his
idolizing
itdreamlike
symbolize the “light”
beauty, the
of
both disappointment
mysterious and romantic.
Mangan’s
of the boy
In reality, it wassister.
when
just his he
ownsee the
imagination.
bazaar.
▣ The priest and Christian Brother
school are used to symbolize the
major role of the Church and
Religion in the boy’s life.
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The End