Infatuation In Araby
In Araby, Joyce depicts the narrator as a young schoolboy from Dublin who has lacked exposure to the world outside of his own. In a person with little to no exposure like so, infatuation and indulgence seem to easily overtake said individual as they tend to mistake the everyday ordinary for the exotic extraordinary. The narrator in this tale is undoubtedly infatuated with the Mangan’s sister, as he believes she is intriguing and far from the ordinary; he spends his days obsessing over her and thinks there could not possibly be another woman more desirable. As one would assume, he pursues her with unrelenting efforts and invites her to attend Araby with him, a Dublin bazaar. However, the girl must deny this offer due to previous commitments