Araby

Araby by Alissa Gray - Saturday, October 6, 2012, 10:22 PM

I agree with the author and appreciate her point if view.  I feel this story is somewhat romantic. On the subject of the lonely quest to the bazaar and a gift for a lady. He wouldn't been interested in the bazaar in the first place without Megan’s sister going off on how cool and magnificent it was. The lonely quest is a very mature and wise way of looking at it because in the end of that whole experiences and experiences to come all he has is himself and only himself. You were born alone and you die alone. The symbolic memory of the priest, funeral and all the lovely memories  he had. The childhood memory of the new girl moving in the a new neighborhood. The guy shared the same kind of memories as a little boy welcoming Megan’s sister and how she knew to his neighborhood. The sister talk his head off about the famous bazaar, after he introduced and befriended her welcoming her to the new neighborhood. After all the talk and excitement about visiting the bazaar and getting a gift to bring back to Meg’s sister, he realizes the bazaar it was not as cool and excited for him. I definitely feel that this author provided you a new and perhaps deeper understanding of the story. I think its the sometimes lonely, brutal, truthful side of what love and romance is like. He went there alone for the hope to bring something back but maturely saw no real investment or potential investment for an expression of his love for Megan’s sister a stranger with no true regard for him just the potential investment. This lonely but realistic realization leads him to believe that, that wasn't  the love he desires, his love he will share with and for someone one day won’t need to be bought. Also the boy seemed like he wasn't interested in this amazing bazaar because he could not relate to Megan's sister's point of view and fantasy about the place. He was too sheltered of failure with the town and life he learned to live that the shock of how different the Bazaar was didn't make him comfortable it almost seemed like a culture shock to him. He probably also realized by not being interested in the Bazaar he had little to relate and be interested in the girl he loved. Maybe because she was new to the neighborhood he was intrigued but then got suddenly turned off by the end of the night as the bazaar closed down and that's why her choose to buy nothing for her. It makes sense that the only person knowing and dreaming to go to that bazaar was an out of towner who wasn't quite sheltered from the outside world and knew there was so much more she wanted to see and do. I really enjoyed reading this story and the other one but this was my favorite. Love and the feelings of failure of love can really help bring anyone to maturity and adulthood, its the harsh depth reality that can open anyone’s eyes to seeing the real world. Like I always so though, “Its better to love and beloved then to never love at all. Re: Araby by Allen Ghazarian - Saturday, October 6, 2012, 10:55 PM Alissa, I agree with you also, romance plays a significant role in Araby. It's the common theme of "how far will you go for love". Re: Araby by William O'Neill - Saturday, October 6, 2012, 11:34 PM The story by Joyce was amazing I thought. Just the way he writes makes me want to sit back and keep reading his work, it's captivating the way he invokes such tension, such uneasiness, reality, and passion in his description of early love and desire. He would be writing a normal plot description, then all of a sudden you would be in the boys head by the end of the paragraph and he would describe the girl's "soft hair" and such. One of the best pieces I have even read. Re: Araby by Tara Hall - Sunday, October 7, 2012, 12:28 AM I like how you mentioned the romance piece in araby. I like how you compared that to growing up. Good job