Araby
...ollows her. When he gets to the point where they cross paths he speads up and doesn't say anything to her. The only time he gets to talk to her he doesn't know what to say he freezes. Finally she spoke and asked him if he was going to Araby, araby is a carnival/fair with an emphasis on eastern culture, he didn't know what his answer was but she said she couldn't go. She had to go on a retreat for her convent, so the boy said he would go and get her something. He tells his uncle that he wants to go to "Araby" and his uncle basically shruggs it off. The uncle comes home extremely late and is drunk and said he completely forgot about the whole thing. He finally gives him money and he gets on the train to go to "Araby". When he gets there he describes the buliding as a chruch, " I found myself in a big hall girdled at half its height by a gallery. Nearly all the stalls were closed and the greater part of the hall was in darkness. I recognized a silence like that at whcih pervades a church after a service." Well, he walks around and doesn't see anything good to buy as a gift. There is nothing eastern about this fair. The people behind the boothes were british not Asain and really didn't like to be there. He found nothing to get her, left and gazed up into the darkness "I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." Thats how the story ends. It basically just stops, but it does have meaning. This whole story has a back to it. You have this story about a boy who has a crush on a girl, but can't find the words to talk to her. He wants to do something for her so he says going to get her a present at "Araby". When he gets there everything is basaically crap. Its all fake and can't get her anything because it would be pointless. He is left feeling angry. Now the back of this story has to do with religious symbolism. At the begining it mentioned a priest had lived in his house before him and died. Priests are supposed to live in a rectory or a place designated by the church not in a house. He must of not been a highly diginfied priest. Then you have the apple tree in the center of the garden. Well the garden of Eden had an apple tree in its center. Now the girl is kind of tricky but as a reader you might think that she is the church itself,religion. You are very...