“Eveline” concentrates on a nineteen-year old girl’s inner conflict which consists of a contrast between the promise she gave to her dying mother and the need to escape her abusive father. From the youthfulness frustration and disillusioned world in a paralyzed society, Joyce’s journey continues to give us a glimpse of passivity in the adolescence world in the same dying city this journey started by “Eveline”, the fourth story in Dubliners. He experiences an epiphany, his awakening moment, from a world full of light and truth to broken dreams that led to the first steps of his adulthood. Suddenly the boy realizes that he has placed all his love and hope in a world that doesn’t exists, except in his imagination. The church is empty it is not attended by the faithful nor does it contain the spirituality he seeks. He realizes, “a silence like that which pervades a church after service” (Joyce 26). Arriving at the bazaar, he finds it nearly empty.

It mirrors his farewell to romantic illusions. He reminds him about “The Arabs farewell to his steed” which stands for the Arabs willingness to welcome his departed horse is only in his dreams. His uncle feels sorry for him, because he knows that he will be disappointed after all these dreams of going to the bazaar. The delay he encounters from his uncle to get the money needed to go to the “Araby” bazaar frustrates him. He builds his hopes and dreams on the moment when he goes to the “Araby” bazaar and brings something for the one he loves.

However, he spends his days and nights thinking and dreaming about the enchanted Eastern world, “Araby”. At this point, he feels that the lost light of his world will be restored. he will go to “Araby”, which represents his soul’s luxuries, then he can bring a talisman, the Arabian symbol of restoring life. He speaks impulsively: “If I go, I will bring you some thing”. In his only conversation with her, she reveals that she will not be able to go to the “Araby” bazaar, although she would like to. Although he has “Never spoken to her, except for a few casual words”, her name became a “summons to all his foolish blood”.

The result is an idealistic and confused feeling of physical and spiritual love. Because of her, he finds himself entering a new experience, his first love and his imagination and vocabulary while thinking about her is limited by the experiences of his religious training and he romantic novels he has read. Mangan’s sister, the only symbol of light, appears in the boy’s world of darkness. He is searching for the light that he needs for his spirituality. He can only see specific images of a frustrating boring life in a dying and unimaginative city that presented his paralyzed environment.

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