Infatuation In Araby By James Joyce

Araby is a short story written by James Joyce, in the story there a young boy that obsess with his friends sister, the girl which live next door to the boy. The young boy is unnamed however the entire story is from his perspective. The narrator infatuation is so intend that he can’t even speak with the girl that he like. One day she ask him if he is going to araby which is a town “bazaar”. The girl said that she won’t attend the festival in the town. Which triggers him to set his mind that he must go and bring her back something. The rest of his time he spend anxiously waiting until the evening so that he can go to araby. When he finally gets there, everything is close and shut down. He leave disappointed with nothing to give the girl. During the story Joyce formulates the reader for the boy’s discouragement at the end of the story.
The romantic language, details, and imagery of the passage create a joyful and physical tone. Drawing from the religious, chivalric, and emotional realms, Joyce balances words and details, the implications of
The boy carries no chalice, but instead “some of the parcels” from his aunt’s weekly shopping trip. Even the allusion to the Holy Grail is double-edged since, in addition to its religious and chivalric associations, it also carries with it reminder that the grail disappeared because its protector lusted for a young woman, just as the narrator lusts for Mangan’s sister, Furthermore, the foes he is not challenged by dark knights and dragons, but instead is “jostled by drunken men and bargaining women.” Whether the “bargaining women” are merely the haggling shoppers or, on a more sordid level, prostitutes propositioning the “drunken men,” his vision of the chaste lady fair is countered by the commercial pursuits of the “bargaining women.” For this reason, the boy’s illusions of courtly love seem