Araby

             The first association connected with "Araby" that came to my mind was that this story is dark, gloomy and brown. This story is definitely not a happy one. All throughout the story I could not find a single description of something bright, vivid, light, and I mean not only colours, but feelings and emotions too. But there is one exception – the moment when the boy, the main character of the story "Araby", is impatient in his waiting for "the big day", which is going to the bazaar.
             The action takes place in the first half of the 20th century, in one of London's districts. A boy, who is about 12 years old, lives on North Richmond Street and leads a normal life for a boy of his age. One day he realizes his interest to Mangan's sister and Mangan is his fellow. In a conversation with that girl is mentioned the name Araby, the bazaar, and going to this bazaar gives the boy a chance to show the girl his feelings towards her and an opportunity to start some kind of good relations between them. But the boy fails.
             In the beginning of the story there is a description of the house. The way author describes it, and that first comes the description of the house, but not of a main character, creates an idea that the whole story is about this house.
             "The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers."
             Later we see that the main character in the story is a boy. The author tells the story on the behalf of the main character, that is 1st person narrative.
             All throughout the story we can see that the boy, being in love with Mangan's sister, notices every detail of her dress, movements, in the other words, he notices everything about her.
             "Her dress swung as she moved her bod
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