James Joyces Araby Essay -- Araby Essays

James Joyces ArabyThe story Araby, by James Joyce, shows how people often expect more than that which ordinary reality can provide and consequently looking disappointed when they do not receive what they expect. Another fascinating piece of literature is the poetry collection The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane. What, if anything, does one piss to do with the other? This paper will compare one of Cranes poems to Joyces story.Araby tells the story of a young boys disenchantment with life as he experiences his first adult feelings of love for a girl, but is then denied expression of his feelings for her by the adult world. The key theme is frustration, as the boy deals with the limits forced on him by his situation. He has a succession of romantic ideas about a girl and an event to which he attributes magnificent qualities, a common bazaar called Araby, that he will attend on her behalf. On the night when he waits for his uncle to return home so that he can go to the b azaar, the reader witnesses the boys frustration increasing and building. By the time he finally gets to go to the bazaar, it is more or less over. His fantasies about the bazaar and about acquire a special gift for the girl of his dreams are revealed as being ridiculous. The boys anticipation of the event, and of pleasing the object of his affections with a gift from the event, provided him with clarified fantasies. However, reality turns out to be much harsher than fantasy.Crane...