Araby Essay

Irony in in the small story, Araby, is the comparison between the dream type of love the young male child feels for Mangans sister, and the reality of his own high expectations. Throughout the nearsighted story, I experienced a flashback to a particular external quote I had read previously, Love is not what it seems, and just as reality has a way of dashing our dreams so too does the discovery of eyes blind by love. This is to reflect on how the young boy was blinded by love and that he was not aware till the finish of the short story that his expectations of the show Araby was blinded by his love for Mangans sister. maculation reading the short story over and over, I happened to find imageic representation towards how the dark and ethereal are used to show how the narrator sees the population as a dark and lonely place the only light used in the story is used to describe magans sister, and in the end he learns how foolish that love was. This therefore, is making the light a symbol of his innocence and the dark the cruel reality of the world. Another aspect from the story, is how every individual could have easily inferred that, from the description of the boys house situation and the small sum his uncle gave him, their financial situation was tight