Araby

loose sentence

A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows

How does the narrator feel the day of the bazaar

Anxious and excited

Where does "Araby" take place?

Dublin, Ireland

Why is the narrator distracted in school?

He made a promise to bring back a gift for mangans sister

Why does the narrator promise mangans sister

He will go to araby and purchase a gift for her

Why does the narrator have to wait to go to the bazaar

His uncle hasn't given him the money he needs

What can you infer about the narrator's age and experience with the opposite sex?

You can infer he's still young and incredibly naive when it comes to dealing with the opposite sex.

What can you infer about the narrator's interest in Mangan's sister and her interest in him? Is he imagining something that is not real?

You can infer the narrator's interests in Mangan's sister borderline stalker as he waits for her and watches her outside the window. Megans sister is unaware of the narrator's complete love with her. The narrator is not so much into Mangan's sister herself, but of his imagination of her.

disillusion

a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be

Tolerance

acceptance

chafed

became impatient

tedious

long and tiresome

tolerare

to bear

intolerable

unable to be endured

What does the narrator of araby do every morning?

Lays on the floor in the front of the parlor watching the door for Mangans sister

What is vision in literature?

Revealed knowledge or a truth that isn't available to the dreamer

What epiphany does the narrator have at the end of the story? Would you describe the epiphany as a positive or negative experience?

The epiphany the reader has is at the end of the story, the narrator listens to a conversation between a girl working at the bazaar and two guys. After listening to this conversation he realizes the bazaar, which he thought would be so exciting, is really a commercialized place to buy things. He now realizes that the conversation with Mangan's sister, during which he promised he would buy her something, was as meaningless as the one between the girl and guys. This epiphany is negative because he no longer sees the world has a nice place but positive because he sees what the world is really like.

What inference do you make about the significance of the narrator's experience at the Araby fair?

The inference you can make about the significance of the narrator's experience at the Araby fair is the narrator learns about how fantasy can work on a person's perceptions and lead to strange behavior.

What significance do you infer regarding the priest described at the beginning of the story?

The significance of the priest described at the beginning of the story is the priest shows negativity towards the church because the priests had been insensitive to the spiritual needs of his people. This is shows with his collection of books that weren't religious books.