Araby

The boy in the story Araby is intensely subject to the city's dark, hopeless conformity, and his tragic yearning toward the ugly reality in the center of the story. On its simplest level, Araby is a story about a boy's first love. On a deeper level, however, it is a story about the world in which he lives. A world adverse to ideals and dreams. This deeper level is introduced and developed in several scenes: …

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