Araby

In "Araby" by James Joyce, this was a short story in which the protagonists gained a consciousness that was beyond him. Joyce uses the imagery of visualization to enhance the reader's view, "It was the winter season and street lamps were weak which gave additional images of darkness. The setting in Araby took place in Dublin, in a conventional, quiet neighborhood. The boy lived in an old house with the air being musty and nothing …

…is why he feels he is "a creature driven and derided by vanity" and the vanity is his own. I liked the ending of the story, because Joyce draws his protagonist with strokes "A boy who is initiated into knowledge through the loss of innocence, who does not fully realize the incompatibility between the beautiful, innocent world of the imagination and the very real world of fact". I think this passage best symbolizes the story