r he sees or faces her, his heart starts to leap, and the intensity of enthusiasm of love empties his mind, so that he could never find the words to talk to her. He does not even know if he "would ever speak to her or not", and even if he could how he "could tell her of his confused adorations". The boy's obsession of the girl alienates him from reality, hence the girl adopts an image of a goddess in his mind, so that her name "sprang to his lips at moments in strange prayers and praises" as if he prays to the girl (Joyce 2237).
             Afterwards, something he never expected happens and the girl talks to him. However even this attempt of her does not help him overcome his excitement, on the contrary it makes him even more confused and excited. He still could not speak to her. Then she asks if he "was going to Araby" (Joyce 2237). He finally plucks up his courage and speaks his first words to her by asking why she can't go. She says "she could not go, because there would be a retreat that week in her convent" (Joyce 2237). Hoping to get closer to her and fill up his dreams and fantasies, he promises her to bring something from the bazaar if he goes. By purchasing a gift for the girl from this exotic bazaar, he thinks he could explain his love more than any words could. Therefore, he envisions the Araby as a place where his love for the girl can be affirmed. The name Araby itself sounds romantic to him, and has foreign and mysterious connotations. His expectations of the fair cast an "Eastern enhancement" preoccupy his mind; therefore he can no longer
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