What Is The Color Yellow In Araby

James Joyce Published Dubliners in 1914. Dubliners consist of fifteen short stories. All the stories by Joyce in Dubliners coincide of criticism, while Joyce was being raised in Ireland as a young man. In a short story named "Araby", the story initiates itself by the narrator discussing the death of a priest. The priest at that time was a former member of the catholic church. The irony on the death of Father Flynn is due to the fact that the priest died on his third stroke. The stroke the priest received mostly leads to paralysis. Paralysis in "Araby" is double meaning word as throughout the story it identifies itself as irony and theme. The theme with the word paralysis is carried throughout. When the priest died his death was not only a death, but shows of how the catholic in Ireland was paralyzed. The catholic church had no progress of anything whatsoever. Not only did the catholic church have no progress, but it trapped everyone in its direction. It paralyzed everyone in Ireland at the time. Ireland overtook itself in a theocracy.
This color in the book is not a motif or theme of happiness but of decayness. The story Araby explains the yellow decaying teeth of Father Flynn, this once again taking us back to the idea of paralysis. In contrast the color yellow in Araby by Boyne simplifies how the main character likes the old yellowness of the book. This giving both stories a totally different idea and meaning. Joyce throughout his works of arts has somehow focused on the idea of death. Now the short story Araby was no exception. In Dubliners reader learns that death is a role written down. For example, Joyce work will somehow start and end with death or vice versa. One example the reader can coincide on is the death of the priest in Araby but, the reader can also say that Dubliners ended with dead; Michael Furey’s death in “The