Compare and Contrast Araby and Eveline

tory ends on this: "She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition."
             'Araby' is a story about a boy whose life revolves around Mangans sister. To develop the plot of the story, Joyce uses some of the boy's background information, the setting, and why the boy is in 'love' with the girl to help the story unfold. Things start to become difficult at the point where the boy finally talks to Mangan's sister. She asks him whether or not he was going to the bazaar and at the end of that conversation he answers by telling her that if he's going to the bazaar he'll bring he something. For the best moment of the story, the boy finally goes to the bazaar, but instead of it being one huge ordeal, the bazaar turns out to be quite small, due to the fact that the boy arrived there when most of the stalls were closed. The end of the story comes near when the boy tells the storekeeper that he isn't there to buy any of her things and the boy realizes that he had pushed his family deeper into poverty by taking all the money they had over a girl: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." The writer uses the different parts of the plot to control our responses such as it being like a quest as he battled his way through the streets and came all the way to the bazaar when it turned out to be a small place that wasn't worth all the fuss that he
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