James Joyces Araby - The Ironic Narrator of Araby Essay -- Joyce Dubl

The juiceless Narrator of  Araby    Although James Joyces story Araby is told from the first per-son panoramapoint of its young protagonist, we do not receive the impression that a boy tells the story. Instead, the teller seems to be a man bestrided well beyond the experience of the story. The mature man reminisces about his youthful hopes, desires, and frustrations. More than if a boys mind had theorise the events of the story for us, this particular way of telling the story enables us to distinguish clearly the torment youth experiences when examples, concerning both sacred and earthly love, be destroyed by a suddenly unclouded view of the material military man. Because the man, rather than the boy, recounts the experience, an teetotal view can be presented of the institutions and persons surrounding the boy. This ironic view would be impossible for the immature, emotionally involved mind of the boy himself. Only an adult looking back at the high hopes of anomalous blood and its resultant destruction could account for the ironic viewpoint. Throughout the story, however, the narrator consistently maintains a full sensitivity to his youthful anguish. From first to stretch forth we sense the reality to him of his earlier idealistic dream of beauty. The opening paragraph, mount the scene, prepares us for the view we receive of the conflict between the loveliness of the ideal and the drabness of the actual. Descri... ...rious wares, is tended by uncaring people who leave him even more than alone than he had been before the young lady who should have waited on him ignores him to joke with two young men. The young ladys empty remarks to the young men have a ring in the entrepot of the mature narrator reminiscent of his adored ones remarks. Both are pertain with the material, the crass. The narrator can, with his backward look, supply us with two apprehensions one, the fully remembered, and thence fully felt, anguish of a too sudden realization of the dissimilitude between a youthful dream of the mystic beauty of the world and his actual world and two, the irony implicit in a view that can see the dream itself as a vanity.