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Araby (Dubliners)
by
James Joyce
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Kindle Edition, 6 pages
Published
(first published 2002)
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Jun 29, 2012
Erich Franz Guzmann
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4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
1910s,
kultur,
kurzgeschichte,
klassiker,
fiktion,
historische,
education,
europa,
author-male,
dramen,
dunkle,
female-protagonist
A very strange story in my opinion. Pretty dark in some parts, there are some interesting and redeeming parts but all and all it was just okay.
UPDATE:
I had to read this a second time, good thing it was short but I wanted to see if the feeling it gave me was from the book or was just the feeling I had at the time. And it was definitely from the book. Though it was an uneasy feeling; any story that can evoke such feeling deserves another star than the 3 I gave it just for the story.
The most prevalent irony in this short story is the contrast between the dreamlike type of love he feels for the young woman, and the reality of his unrealistically high expectations. The metaphor for this irony is the bazaar Araby, after which the text is appropriately named. The prospect of attending Araby became a feverish obsession for the young narrator the minute the object of his affection expressed interest in the bazaar. When she told him she could not go, he made it his mission to atte...more
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The unnamed protagonist in "Araby" is a boy who is just starting to come into his sexual identity. Through his first-person narration, we are immersed at the start of the story in the drab life that people live on North Richmond Street, which seems to be illuminated only by the verve and imagination of the children who, despite the growing darkness that comes during the winter months, insist on playing "until [their:] bodies glowed." Even though the conditions of this neighbourhood leave much to...more
Mar 27, 2011
Dalya Bordman
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Araby is a short story that deals with a young boy's life in Ireland. It largely focuses on religion and juxtaposes holiness and profanity. The young boy is in love with his friend's sister and goes to the bizarre, Araby, in order to impress her because she cannot attend. In the end, the boy realizes that the bizarre is ordinary and all of his dreams and hopes about it have fallen short. Thus, Araby taught me the importance of juxtaposition. Because Joyce paired things together, like sex and lov...more
Araby is a story about an unnamed boy who's in love with a girl. The girl asks if he is going to Araby. He says if he does go, he'll get her something.
He tells his uncle that he is going to Araby and that he needs money. Except, he comes home late claiming he forgot. He comes to Araby late just as it is closing, and then finds out he doesn't have enough money to buy anything anyway.
This story was weird to me. I didn't get it right away...
He tells his uncle that he is going to Araby and that he needs money. Except, he comes home late claiming he forgot. He comes to Araby late just as it is closing, and then finds out he doesn't have enough money to buy anything anyway.
This story was weird to me. I didn't get it right away...
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If you e ER want to really connect with a short story or novel, write a screenplay adaptation. I did that once for This short story for a writing class. This story now has a different lyricism now when I re-read it...
" I feel...disappointed." A quote from one of my students many years ago...she summed up what Joyce wants us to feel...quite the opposite of great expectations. A glimpse at early modernism.
it was really owsom svearly feelinx of an child one created by jamce joyce as a capture of epiphany amazing relishable that being child craze after mangan's sister...
Tragic is the perfect word for the story and the last words of the story leave made me felt wounded "And my eye burned with anguish and anger"
This story was ok. It was mostly about a boy who had his first crush and then was crushed, kind of sad if you think about it. Still, it was a nice read.
A boy is encased within a tomb, both physically and mentally. It is his desire for a girl and his inability to have her which encases him.
I liked this short story it explaining that the appearance or how you look to someone is not the right way to judge him
Love is not what it seems, and just as reality has a way of dashing our dreams so too does the discovery of eyes blinded by love.
I'm not a big fan of James Joyce, but this has get to be the best of his literary works.
For some "bizarre" (ha ha!) reason I really liked this short story.
Short story lover here. This is one of my favorites.
composition and literature begins...!
Great Realization
naive boy.. lol senior year
Quest of enlightenment.
it's good for those who need a serious reality check, that's for sure!
The literary techniques, such as metaphor and imagery, were very prominent and helped me to better understand the meaning behind the text, but I wouldn't read it again.
The greatest examination of the hopeless adolescent love ever written; some of Joyce's most beautifully done and elegant prose
This was a beautifully vivid short story that created a transitive state for the reader.
Oh, Joyce.
May 21, 2013
Camila Dm
marked it as to-read
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James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce's technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of s...more
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James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce's technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of s...more
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“Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance…Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
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