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Themes in two stories ArabyandEveline

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Araby and Eveline : Youth in Distress

James Joyce is one of the 20th century . In this age traditional virtues and attitudes are no longer enough to sustain the needs of a fast-changing world . The never-ending search for new concepts and style is reflected in his work- Dubliners- a volume of naturalistic yet symbolic stories of which Araby and Eveline are taken from

Araby and Eveline deal with the experiences of youth of being in love and

being disappointed with it

Let us start with Araby . Araby ' pertains to the an unnamed protagonist who feels infatuation . In the beginning of the story , the boy is innocent about life and love . Then the boy is approached by Mangan 's sister if he would like to go to Araby . When he asks why she cannot go with him , she gives reasons . Because he is eager to buy her something he goes alone . Then . he sees a saleslady flirting with two men and he associates what has transpired with him and the girl . In the end , he leaves with disappointment and without buying anything

The protagonist 's reaction to the girl are at once sensuous and spiritual he sees her as a virgin and a tempress . Araby shatters his romantic illusions giving a moment of insight ( Mellard 337 . He realizes that the covert offer is really an opportunity for them to go together . Moreover , this realization crushed him

Araby is a picture of reality . It is not an ideal place to be . It presented to the young boy the true meaning of life and adulthood .The unnamed central character has gone to journey of his idealism not knowing he would just end up where he begin , which is reality

On the other hand , Eveline shares the same disappointment . She still lives in the memory of the past when her mother is still alive and her father is not yet cruel to her . She takes solace from these memoir Although her lover wants them to break away from her family so that she can escape the bitterness of life , at the end she refuses to leave Then , she becomes disappointed with her decision

In the story , she is offered with a means to escape and be fulfilled in her life , but since it is not her nature to explore , she is left with nothing and back to her old unhappy life

In addition to theme of disappointment from falling in love , the stories imply such themes as the contrast between imagination and reality , and escape ( Maglaner and Kain 78

First , the contrast between imagination and reality . In Araby , the bazaar exposed the boy from the discovery of how it is like to be an adult . From his ideals of a perfect romance comes the reality of bitterness that shatters him . In Eveline , although she is already exposed with reality , she sticks to the idea of it . she does not want to...

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