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\f5 Mangan's Sister: Girl to whom the narrator is attracted. }{\fs24 \kerning2
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och \f5 Narrator's Uncle, Aunt: Relatives who are rearing the narrator.}{\fs24 \
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\f5 Schoolmaster: Narrator's teacher. }{\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \
loch \f5 \line }{\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 Stall Attendant
: Young Englishwoman who sells vases, tea sets, and similar wares at the Araby b
azaar. Two Englishmen: Young men with whom the stall attendant flirts. }{\fs24 \
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\loch \af0 {\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af6 \hich \af6 \loch \f6 PLOT:}{\fs24 \kerni
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ang1033 \langnp1033 The little boy lives with his aunt and uncle on a dead-end s
treet in Dublin, in a house formerly occupied by a now deceased priest. The boy
is impressed and somewhat mystified by the moldy books\uc1 \u8212 ?a historical
romance, a pious tract, and a detective autobiography\uc1 \u8212 ?and other remi
nders of the previous tenant. }{\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5
\lang1033 \langnp1033 \par }\pard \plain \qj \li0 \ri0 \sb100 \lisb0 \sa100 \lis
a0 \widctlpar \adjustright \lin0 \rin0 \itap0 \fs21 \kerning2 \dbch \af2 \hich \
af0 \loch \af0 {\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang1033 \langn
p1033 The action of the story begins with the children\uc1 \u8217 ?s games, play
ed in the lanes and backyards of the neighborhood during the winter twilight. Th
ese games end when the sister of one of the boys\uc1 \u8212 ?named Mangan\uc1 \u
8212 ?calls her little brother in to his tea. The image of this girl standing in
the lighted doorway so fixes itself in the boy\uc1 \u8217 ?s imagination that h
e begins to pursue her shyly in the street. Even in the bustle of the weekly gro
cery shopping, he carries with him a feeling about her that amounts to something
like mystical rapture. }{\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang1
033 \langnp1033 \par }\pard \plain \qj \li0 \ri0 \sb100 \lisb0 \sa100 \lisa0 \wi
dctlpar \adjustright \lin0 \rin0 \itap0 \fs21 \kerning2 \dbch \af2 \hich \af0 \l
och \af0 {\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang1033 \langnp1033
Then, one day, while the other little boys are playing, she asks him if he is go
ing to a bazaar, named Araby. She is unable to go because of religious activitie
s at her school, but he undertakes to go and bring her a gift instead. This brie
f conversation and the prospect of the trip to the bazaar causes the boy to lose
concentration on his lessons and regard his playmates with disdain. }{\fs24 \ke
rning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang1033 \langnp1033 \par }\pard \plain
\qj \li0 \ri0 \sb100 \lisb0 \sa100 \lisa0 \widctlpar \adjustright \lin0 \rin0 \i
tap0 \fs21 \kerning2 \dbch \af2 \hich \af0 \loch \af0 {\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af
5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang1033 \langnp1033 The Saturday of the bazaar is acute
ly agonizing for the boy. He has to wait all day long for his uncle to come home
and give him the required pocket money. He withdraws from play and wanders thro
ugh the upper empty rooms of the house, dreaming of the girl. His apprehension d
uring suppertime is compounded by the chatter of a visiting woman. Finally, at n
ine o\uc1 \u8217 ?clock, his uncle arrives home, somewhat drunk, for his dinner.
He greets the boy\uc1 \u8217 ?s anxious reminder of his trip with some patroniz
ing cliches. }{\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang1033 \langnp
1033 \par }\pard \plain \qj \li0 \ri0 \sb100 \lisb0 \sa100 \lisa0 \widctlpar \ad
justright \lin0 \rin0 \itap0 \fs21 \kerning2 \dbch \af2 \hich \af0 \loch \af0 {\
fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang1033 \langnp1033 When he set
s out at last, the boy finds that he is alone on the special train arranged for
the bazaar, and finally arrives there at 9:50 p.m. In his haste, he pays the adu
lt fee at the turnstile, only to find that the bazaar is just about to close and
the day\uc1 \u8217 ?s take is being counted. Hesitantly, he approaches one of t
he few stalls still open, one selling pottery. The young lady in charge of this
stall pauses momentarily in her flirtatious banter with two young men to attend
to the boy\uc1 \u8217 ?s diffident interest in her wares. He is so put off by al
l his disappointments and her tone of voice, however, that he at once decides no
t to buy anything. Instead, he simply stands there in the middle of the darkenin
g bazaar, incensed at the betrayal of his hopes and the shattering of his illusi
ons.}{\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang1033 \langnp1033 \par
}\pard \plain \qj \li0 \ri0 \sb100 \lisb0 \sa100 \lisa0 \nowidctlpar \adjustrig
ht \lin0 \rin0 \itap0 \fs21 \kerning2 \dbch \af2 \hich \af0 \loch \af0 {\fs24 \k
erning2 \dbch \af6 \hich \af6 \loch \f6 \lang13321 \langnp13321 POINT OF VIEW:}{
\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang13321 \langnp13321 \par }\p
ard \plain \qj \li0 \ri0 \sb100 \lisb0 \sa100 \lisa0 \nowidctlpar \adjustright \
lin0 \rin0 \itap0 \fs21 \kerning2 \dbch \af2 \hich \af0 \loch \af0 {\fs24 \kerni
ng2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang13321 \langnp13321 An adolescent boy na
rrates the story in first-person point of view. He does not identify himself. Bu
t to readers familiar with the life and works of Joyce, it becomes clear that he
represents the author. Joyce based characters, places, and events in the story
on recollections from his boyhood, although he altered reality from time to time
. }{\fs24 \kerning2 \dbch \af5 \hich \af5 \loch \f5 \lang13321 \langnp13321 \par
}\pard \plain \qj \li0 \ri0 \sa200 \lisa0 \sl276 \slmult1 \nowidctlpar \adjustr
ight \lin0 \rin0 \itap0 \fs21 \kerning2 \dbch \af2 \hich \af0 \loch \af0 {\fs22
\kerning2 \dbch \af7 \hich \af7 \loch \f7 \lang13321 \langnp13321 \par }}