James Joyce Use Of Imagery In Araby

The story “Araby” by James Joyce is about a young catholic boy who lives in a religious town and goes to a religious school. He had really no exposure to women or anything else. Then he saw his friend’s sister that lives across from him. He started to have feelings toward her. The boy is starting to go through puberty and he expresses his sexual desires towards the girl. He is having a hard time to deny it because of his religion. He feels that it is a sin. Joyce connects paragraph five and six to the whole story because of the imagery, personifications, and associated meanings used to describe the boy’s complete feelings towards the girl. Joyce used examples of imagery to express the feelings that the boy had toward the girl. He had adored the girl since the first day he saw her. One example of imagery that Joyce used was in paragraph five when he states “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” (87). This quote showed an image of how the boy was not able to
he displays many sentences with a meaning behind it. One example is in paragraph six when the boy states “Some distant lamp or lighted window gleamed below me. I was thankful that I could see so little. All my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: O love! O love! May times” (87). This shows how the boy was confused about the way he should act because of his faith. There were religious words used as well to describe his sexual feelings. One example is when he said all my senses seemed to veil themselves. a veil is something that the woman wore in church. Another example of religious terms used was when he pressed the palms of his hands as if he was praying. In this paragraph we can see how much this boy adored the