Epiphany in Araby of James Joyces Dubliners Essay -- Joyce Dubliners

Araby An Epiphany The story, Araby in James Joyces Dubliners presents a flat, rather spacial portrait. The visual and symbolic details embedded in the story, are super concentrated, and the story culminates in an epiphany. An epiphany is a moment when the essence of a portion is revealed , when all the forces that bear on his life converge, and the reader can, in that instant, envision him. Araby is centered on an epiphany, and is concerned with a failure or deception, which results in realization and disillusionment. The meaning is revealed in a young boys psychic locomote from love to despair and disappointment, and the theme is found in the boys discovery of the stochastic variable between the real and the ideal in life. The story opens with a exposition of North Richmond Street, a blind, cold ... .. silent street where the houses gazed at one an-other with brown imperturbable faces. It is a street of fixed, decaying conformity and ludicrous piety. The boys house contain s the samesense of a dead present and a lost past. The originator tenant, a priest,died in the ba... ...stern enchantment. His love, like his quest for a gift to play up the girl to him in an unfriendly world, ends with his realizing that his love existed only in his mind. therefrom the theme of the story-the discrepancy between the real and the ideal-is made final in the bazaar, a place of tawdry make-believe. The epiphany in which the boy lives a inhalation in spite of the ugly and the worldly is brought to its inevitable conclusion the unity sensation of life disintegrates. The boy senses the falsity of his dreams and his eyes burn with trouble and anger.