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Critical Analysis of ‘Araby’
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‘Araby’ is a story about a boy’s realization about the difference between the ideal world of his imagination and the sordid reality of life. In some ways it can be viewed as a coming-of-age tale, where, at threshold of puberty the world of innocence, hitherto known to us, gives way to experience. The result, however painful, alters one’s viewpoint of life and allows him to view things in a different light.
The opening lines set the stage where most of the action takes place, “North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storey’s stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces”(91). The tone used in the description carries an unmistakable sense of foreboding. The gray of the houses, the blind street, the dead priest, the useless yellowed books which might have been treasured once, the cold air, dark muddy lanes, all create a sense of real world which is in direct contrast to the world of chivalrous love of fervent adulation that the young narrator creates for himself. The object of this fervent adulation, the narrators beloved is always seen with light, “her figure defined by the light from the half opened door”(91), when she is first introduced, or she is followed by the narrator every morning. This is perhaps a delibe...
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