The Similarities Between the Narrator in Araby and I
             At some point in ones life, one must come to a crossing ground where one must choose to grow up and become an adult. All have either experienced this or will experience this later on in the future. In the story Araby, the narrator is going along life content being a child when all of a sudden he is faced with the fact that he is now a young adolescent. I too had similar experiences as a child and an adolescent where I suddenly realized that I was not a child anymore. The author of the story takes the narrator form childhood on into his early adolescent years in just a few pages. This transformation in the narrator is the author's way of signifying the change that every person goes through throughout his or her life. James Joyce uses a short story to signify the whole world and the life changes that everyone it eventually experience.
             In the beginning of the story the author has the narrator describe in great deal his childish crush that he has for Mangan's sister. The affection for Mangan's sister was just a purely child like affection that a child would have just before turning into a young adolescent. The narrator describes his feelings for the girl in great detail, but never discloses her name.
             "At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the image that I strove to read. The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me." (Joyce 397)
             I to know the feeling of "puppy love" as many call it now. I once thought that I was madly in love with this guy that I was dating, but it was not until after we broke up that I realized that what I experienced was not love. The narrator too had to get out of the situation before he realized that it was not love that he felt. In the beginning however the narrator is s...