roduced and developed in several scenes: the opening description of the boy's street, his house, his relationship to his aunt and uncle, the information about the priest and his belongings, the boy's two trips, his walks through Dublin shopping and his subsequent ride to Araby. These scenes all have the same thing in common; they each set the stage for this young boy to emotionally develop into an adult. A young boy such as the one in "Araby" has his happiness in many places. He finds comfort in friends, in family, in God, but something is missing here. He, like many other adolescents, found it in a girl: a beautiful, young girl. "Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. T
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