ENG 1120 Lecture 4: Araby by James Joyce

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Natalie Taylor

Document Summary

Coming of age story: beginning, believe"s he"s special because of his relationship with the girl middle: starts experiencing life end:vision changes & his relationship isn"t special anymore. He"s really mad toward the end of the story. Assuming the narrator is 12ish he has to ask for money or permission to go out. This is a coming of age story you come of age around 12. Uses the word blind twice in one paragraph to describe the neighbourhood he lives in/ the dead end street. 2nd paragraph: religion old, musty, useless, dead. Likes the book w/ yellow pages the most bc he"s been seeped in old stuff. Refers the pomegranate to the tree of eden. Tree of knowledge and good and evil. Starting from 3rd period, written in poetic language vivid, vital (alive w/ senses not only imaginary but physical) Boy in araby: falls for the girl: spends all his money getting into the fair (becomes depressed/sad)