In his brief but complex story Araby, James Joyce concentrates

In his brief but complex story Araby, James Joyce concentrates In his brief but complex story "Araby," James Joyce concentrates on character to reveal the ironies within self-deception. To some, "Araby" is a story of initiation, of a boy's pursuit for the ideal. The pursuit ends in failure but results in an inner awareness and a first step into manhood. The story also consists of a grown man's remembered experience, a man who looks back to a particular moment of his life where he was blinded by illusions, as he tells the story from an adult perspective. Though reality can sometimes be mistaken by illusion set forth by our own minds, as individuals, we should liberate our souls of the vanity that we foster. In this short story we are presented the life of a boy who seems to have mistaken his "puppy love" towards a girl, for something he soon realizes he was wrong about.Bazaar Nagadeepa