Short Story Post....Araby

The boy in this story lives and plays on North Richmond Street. He lives with his aunt and uncle. (This is the case in a lot of Joyce's short stories because he also lived with his aunt and uncle as a child.) The boy develops a crush on one of his friends' sister. He talks of her beauty several times throughout the story, which is symbolic because most of the descriptions in this story are drab. At one point, he goes into the back room where the girl is to tell her how he feels for her, but he can't come out and say it. She then asks him if he is going to the "Araby," which is a bazaar, and told him she wanted to go, but couldn't because of her convent. She told him it would be "splendid." He replied to her that if he went, he would get her something. The rest of the story tells about how anxious and excited he is to go to the bazaar; because he thinks it will be wonderful and fun. After his uncle gives him money and he finally makes it to the Araby, he is disappointed because it is nothing he hoped it would be, it had the same dullness and drabness as the street he lives on. He became so upset and angry, he didn't even buy anything for the girl.