Mood Of Araby

I really enjoyed reading the short story Araby by James Joyce, with his excellent usage of the English language to convey emotions, moods, smells and even places. Just in his first paragraph alone Joyce describes and sets the mood of how the street is boring with brown houses and with an empty house at the dead end of the street (1914). Joyce detailed and playful use of words to describe the boy’s feelings for the girl is also very beautiful with “But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.” (1914). Reading the story you really can imagine seeing everything happening in your mind, you feel the frustration of the boy waiting to go to Araby bazaar and how it turned to anger at the