Coming of Aage and Love in the Story Araby
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: Coming of Aage and Love in the Story Araby
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Love often times is one of the strongest motivators. Love can inspire acts of extreme bravery, crush one’s heart,
and can even force a person to move on and grow up. In this novel, Araby is a bazaar that conveyed an illassorted blend of pseudo-Eastern romanticism and blatant commercialism. For one shilling, as the advertisement
put it, one could visit "Araby in Dublin" and at the same time aid the Jervis Street Hospital (Stone). What does love
have to do with a foreign bazaar? In the short story a young boy secretly falls in love with a girl and promises to
bring her a gift from Araby. In the end, he fails to bring her a gift and is heartbroken as he comes to a realization
that all has and would have been in vain. Love, and more important, the lack of it, is one of the greatest motivators
for one to come of age and transition into adulthood.
The story is written from the perspective of the boy and allows an extremely emotional perspective as his deeper
feelings are revealed. The author, James Joyce, includes many details that reference his own past experiences and
help relate the story to his own life. It is widely speculated that “Araby” is actually an autobiographical experience
from Joyce’s early childhood. While Joyce never referred to the short story autobiographically, a number of
connections can be made. For example, both the boy in “Araby” and James Joyce grew up on North Richmond
Street. “North Richmond Street is blind, with a detached two-story house at the blind end, and down the street, as
the opening paragraph informs us, the Christian Brothers’ school” (Stone). Also, many critics have related the boy’s
aunt and uncle to Joyce’s parents as they have striking similarities such as his father’s drunkenness, irregular ...
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