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The realistic setting of the time and place in the three first paragraphs enables the reader to identify with the protagonist of the story, the young boy. In the opening of the story, James Joyce carefully described the protagonist's neighborhood and surroundings with the use of real names like "North Richmond Street" and "Christian brothers' School". The atmosphere is depicted with the use of allusions to books about deception; "The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant, The Memoirs of Vidocq and "The Arab's Farewell to his Steed," by Caroline Norton. There is also an allusion to the Irish poet, James Clarence Mangan, from the 19th century that supports the theme of romanticism in the story, the street songs like "come-all-you" who deals with current popular Irish events and heroes and the massive use of insinuation to Christianity. The picture of the somber houses, the macabre atmosphere of death in the description of the priest's room, the darkness of the winter season as well as the contrast between darkness/death and love/romance are all part of the depiction by which James Joyce creates the protagonist. The characterization of the boy carries a combination of emotions, beliefs, values, attitudes, desires and ide
Bob Doran, a round developing character, is forced into the marriage by Mrs. The boy's confusion about love, sexuality and religion is conveyed with the choice of language. The motif of blindness over the course of the story, help us understand the change and development that the character is going through. as in general that turn him into a round character. In a letter from Joyce to Grant Richards (publisher), 5 may 1906, James Joyce wrote: "my intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the center of paralysis. He is also capable of self-reflection and judgment as he sees himself at the end of the story as "a creature driven and derided by vanity"(Joyce, 80). The protagonist in "Araby" has an inner conflict contrasting his adolescence and his sudden entry into the world of adults. Country, church and family came to seem to the author as nets thrown to contain and restrain the free exercise of the creative spirit. It does not merely represent a clinical interest in the psychology of growing up-but is a symbolic rendering of a central conflict in mature experience. He emphasizes the role of religion in enforcing paralysis. Another indication of the narrator's maturity is his style; in the first paragraph, he says that the houses, "conscious of decent lives within them. The protagonist in "Araby" can easily be compared with the one in "A&P", by john Updike. In this way, the readers may find it more interesting as they can identify themselves more with the boy and it may help them to recall their own experience of admiring somebody secretly. The woman in "Araby", Mangan's sister, seems to fulfill the role of the symbolic character, as she has been consigned to the stereotypical role of the unattainable virgin.
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