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ARABY (1914) - Coggle Diagram
ARABY (1914)
AUTHOR
Occupation: novelist, poet, literary critic
Death: 13 January 1941 (58 years) Zurich, Switzerland
Notable works: Dubliners (1914)
A portrait of an artist as a young man (1916)
Ulysses (1922)
Finnegans wake (1939)
Birth: 2 February 1882 Ireland, Dublin
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GENRE
Araby is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. The story traces a young boy's infatuation with his friend's sister
SYMBOLS
rusty bicycle-pump: the rust represents the passing of time,and its presence in the priest's garden reflects Joyce's belief that the Church's time has passed
SETTING
The story begins with a description of the narrator's neighborhood on North Richmond street. The narrator is a young man who lives with his aunt and uncle
EVALUATION
The narrator is growing up and he images adulthood to be exciting, but he find that, like the town he lives in, maturity is drab and disappointing. Joyce uses the themes of growing up and disillusionment, along with love, religion, and escapism