Tarak Patel
Araby Essay
In Araby, a lot of attention has been on the character who is an unnamed boy. The story starts off with a boy and at the end, it ends with an adolescent boy. The main idea of the story is the loss of innocence which is realized by the mature man when he looks back at his past. He is frustrated and mad at himself and learns that love and idealism is foolish after he experiences a moment of epiphany.
The boy tells Mangan’s sister that he will bring a gift for her because she cannot go to bazaar even though she really wants too. The boy loves her but doesn’t have the courage to say it. When he reaches the bazaar, seeing only one stall he realizes how foolish he is. He has never been to this bazaar before and after seeing only one stall and the lady who is rude to him realizes this is a foolish place to hang out. He waited all week to come here and he is very disappointed at himself to have fallen in love with Mangan’s sister and he realizes that she will never love him.
