Araby

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Araby

• Quiz Discussion

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Any Questions?

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Language Structure

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1. Which of the following is NOT a symbol in the
story?

1. The bazaar
2. Mangans sister
3. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a
   creature driven and derided by vanity and my
   eyes burned with anguish and anger.
4. The wild garden behind the house contained a
   central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes,
   under one of which I found the late tenant's
   rusty bicycle-pump.

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2. I may have stood there for an hour, seeing
nothing but the ___-clad figure cast by my
imagination, touched discreetly by the lamplight
at the curved neck, at the hand upon the railings
and at the border below the dress.

1. silk
2. iron
3. finely
4. brown

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Ref. The Boys Love -- Mangans Sister

• Images of light vs. browness (pars. 3, 10 vs. 4,
  15). Why?
• She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the
  light from the half-opened door. . . . Her
  dress swung as she moved her body, and the soft
  rope of her hair tossed from side to side.
• I kept her brown figure always in my eye
• the brown-clad figure cast by my imagination

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3. What makes the story different from A P?

1. It does not describe the appearance of the girl
   the boy admires.
2. It gives background reasons for the boys
   failure.
3. It does not begin in the middle.
4. It does not have an open ending.

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Setting

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4. What role does religion play in the story?

• 1.It supports the boys spiritual progress.
• 2. Its teaching is conveyed through the books the
  priest left behind.
• 3. It is confused with romance in the boys mind.
  
• 4. All of the above.

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5. Which of the following does NOT suggest
superficiality materialism?

• 1. The three young peoples dialogue in the
  bazaar.
• 2. In the bazaar, the boy, giving up the
  attempt to buy something, allows the two
  pennies to fall against the sixpence in my
  pocket.
• 3. When the boy leaves the uncle, he recites the
  opening lines of The Arab's Farewell to his
  Steed.
• 4. Mangans sisters interest in Araby.

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Ref. images of superficiality materialism

• Superficiality
• The three young peoples dialogue fib.
• The uncles lack of understanding (in his use of
  an exotic poem).
• Materialism, which the quest is contaminated by
• Par 25 When starting the trip, I held a
  florin tightly in my hand as I strode down
  Buckingham Street towards the station.
• Par 26 in the bazaar, I listened to the fall
  of the coins.
• Par 37 Giving up the attempt to buy something,
  I allowed the two pennies to fall against the
  sixpence in my pocket. ? disappointment

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Characters

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6. Which of the following description is NOT true
of the boy?

1. His love of Mangans sister makes him lose
   interest in playing games with his friends.
2. Shy and sensitive, he compares himself to a
   musician playing music out of the woman as a
   harp.
3. Waiting to go to Araby, he finds daily duties
   dull and childish.
4. His love for Mangans sister is mixed with
   religious sentiment.

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Ref. The boys emotions religious images

• In the market, he imagined that he bore his
  chalice safely through a throng of foes.
• Speaks of her names in strange prayers and
  praises he does not undertsand, his eyes full of
  tears.
• At the priests room All my senses seemed to
  desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was
  about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of
  my hands together until they trembled, murmuring
  O love! O love! many times. ? religious
  devotion and ecstasy.

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Ref. The Boys Love -- Mangans Sister (2)

• Religious image (like Virgin Mary) vs. Reality
• When she talks to him, she turns a silver
  bracelet round and round her wrist. She held
  one of the spikes, bowing her head towards me.
  The light from the lamp opposite our door caught
  the white curve of her neck, lit up her hair that
  rested there and, falling, lit up the hand upon
  the railing. It fell over one side of her dress
  and caught the white border of a petticoat, just
  visible as she stood at ease.

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Theme

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7. Why is the boys quest doomed to fail?
(Choose the wrong answer)

• He does not have money.
• He does not have proper parental guidance
  (powerless aunt and drunk uncle)
• Mangans sister is also confined.
• The people in his world are all superficial and
  indecent.

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8. Why doesnt the boy buy anything?

1. He finds himself driven by vanity.
2. The shop girl is not interested in doing
   business.
3. Its too late he does not know what to buy.
4. All of the above.

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9. Discussion

• Is Araby a story of initiation? If so, how is
  it similar to or different from A P?
• I allowed the two pennies to fall against the
  sixpence in my pocket. I heard a voice call from
  one end of the gallery that the light was out.
  The upper part of the hall was now completely
  dark.
• Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a
  creature driven and derided by vanity and my
  eyes burned with anguish and anger