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外院 0903班 周旭 学号020901104 A Broken Romantic Dream -----Araby （by James Joyce） James Joyces Dubliners consist of three short stories. In my own opinion, Araby is the best. It mainly describes a young boys romantic dream. Its a rich symbolic story. The author gives the story as the first person. It was set in a dark, gloomy background in Dublin. The boy in the story loves a neighboring girl called Mangans sister secretly. He stares at her from his window or follow her on the street. He even often thinks of her in the place which is most hostile to romance. “My eyes were often full of tears and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom.” perfectly describe the deep love of the young boy. The pure love to Mangan’s sister made him decide to find a good present for her in Araby, where Mangan’s sister recommended him to go. But the boys uncle forgets the promise that he will give money to the boy and late for home. Almost until night, he begins to run to the Araby with anxiety. It was dark when he arrived there. A weary-looking man was at the entrance to bazaar. The woman spoke to him just like it is a duty and her voice was not encouraging, then she turned to two young men. At the moment, the boy felt nothing but disappointment. The boy’s dream was smashed into pieces. He didn’t know where to go, what to do. He could never live innocently as he used be, because he was in half-awake condition and he used be so approach to the truth. In the story the young boy was not only full of irritation, but also much more painful. At the end, the theme of the whole story finally emerged. People feel painful when faced a change. Will the boy go on his suffering? No matter how, I’m certain that the boy had woken up from the dream and grown up towards maturity. When he discovers the difference between fantasy and reality, perhaps we also hope that, in the future, he will learn to love real people instead of the idealized versions of them he c