Analyzing and interpreting a short story

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Introduction
The Araby is a short story whose setting is in the contemporary society. It tackles major themes such as loss of innocence, poverty versus the life of the mind: including intellectual and physical, the reducing significance of church, the pain of meeting love in the real world rather than the ideal one. All this themes are building up via the thoughts of a young boy narrator.
The author, James Joyce was born in 1882 in Dublin. Having been born to an irresponsible father who was a drunk, there was disorder in his family. Despite these odds, he managed to go to school at Jesuit and at university college, Dublin. He left Ireland at the age of twenty and wrote the book” The shortest way to Tara”. The responsibility of taking care of his family was left to him while he was in Paris. The collections of short stories he wrote between 1904 and 1907 were named Dubliners. He then wrote the Portrait of the artist as a Young man in 1916 and Alysses in 1922. In 1948 he was working on Finnegan’s Wake in 1939. Before Dubliners was published, Joyce described it in the words ‘…with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still dares to deform whatever he has seen and heard’ (Joyce 284).
This article tries to explain the major theme in the short story, Araby. The article is developed from observations that the author made in his country which he describes as having been the center of paralysis. ‘I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me to be the center of paralysis…’ (Joyce 284).
This article tries to explain the conditions of life in Dublin at the time when James Joyce was being brought up though a young school boy who lives in an isolated house with his uncle and aunty. The article’s main theme is love. The narrator confesses ‘I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: O love! O love! Many times’ (Joyce 286).
There are certain lifestyles that we cannot ignore in our daily lives however much we try to live certain lifestyles, we are required to relate with each other for companionship and company. This article tries to examine the theme of love among the characters in the short story, Araby. Through the actions of these characters, we are able to learn how we should live harmoniously with each other.
The priest
He was the former occupant of the house in which the narrator and his uncle and aunty lived in north Richmond Street. We learn that we should be charitable to the less fortunate during our lifetime. We also learn that we should be ready to assist those who need what we have in excess. ‘In his will he leaves all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister’ (Joyce 285). This is evidence that although his house was located far from other people, he had love for the people around him. We also learn that we should ...