Araby

"Araby," is a story centered around first love, ideals and dreams. The setting of this story becomes the main idea. This city, in which the narrator grew up in has helped him grow into maturity. The narrator seems to be terribly infatuated with a girl, who happens to be his friend Mangan's older sister, throughout this story. Throughout the story, he watches this girl's doorstep every morning and becomes terribly excited as she leaves her …

…to impossible to transform fantasies into reality. He treated the simplicity of a gift as a window of opportunity. When he became aware of how vain his method may have been, he realized that reality is not simple at all and that in the real world, things don't always happen as we want them to, i.e., bazaars close and the world does not stop for us. With this realization, he gained a new self-awareness.