theme in araby
Joyce’s short story “Araby” is set in Dublin during the early twentieth century, where people lived under religious and sexual repression. ... “Araby” is a story of a young man, on the brink of manhood, who feels this oppression and struggles internally with how to handle it; along with the other common revelations of growing up. The story presents a theme for a coming of age in the boy narrator. Joyce uses this story, not simply to tell about the boy, but to present this theme to Ireland and his fellow Dubliners. ... In the beginning of “Araby” the boy is seriously involved with a group of boys, learning these life lessons; so much in fact they make a, “…career of our play…”. ... ” to Araby. ... Upon his arrival to the Araby the boy is immediately isolated from the small group of “a young lady… talking and laughing with two young gentlemen. ... He personifies these things through the narrator in “Araby”. ... From “Araby” the reader should be able to interpret what has happened to the boy and how to apply that to his/her own life.