Topic: Desire and male gaze

“Araby” is one of the most widely taught short stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. Told in the first person from the perspective of a boy in his early teens who has an infatuation with a neighborhood girl (Mangan’s sister), “Araby” ends with a dark epiphany.  The boy, who envisioned himself on a quest to purchase … James Joyce’s “Araby”: Coming out of the Cave