Essays on Araby

Love is a popular them for movies, music, and books. Love is an emotion that everyone can feel. The short stories, Araby and A Rose for Emily, tell a tale about love, how they fall into love and how they lose their love. While Joyce recounts a story of the love a young man has...

Epiphany refers to the point in a literary text when a character has a sudden realization or insight that affects his or her views in some significant way. In both short stories “Araby” by James Joyce and “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver the narrators both go through an epiphany. In “Abary” the narrator and also the...

One of the key central themes that James Joyce presents in Araby is coming of age, particularly about a young boy taking his first steps into becoming a man. Not necessarily through by gaining a deeper voice or taking more financial responsibility but by developing his first crush. In the story of Araby, the main...