Space and Place in James Joyce’s “Araby”

 James Joyce’s “Araby” has all rights to be regarded as a marvellously evocative short story. The story can be analyzed as a very interior sort of story that combines the elements of action. In general, the actions occur inside the narrator’s head. One more objective of the story is to track the track the changes that occur within the protagonist. Many of the qualities that have been showed in the story are heightened.

The inner essence of the story can be understood by the analysis of the way in which Joyce uses space and place within its story. This measure is used to highlight contrasts and mark transitions that are present in the story. The major actions of the story take place in North Richmond Street. The actions that are depicted in the story are associated with stuffy, respectable adulthood. However, the story of adulthood is in fact the story of childhood.

The connection that the narrator anticipates has to do with a planned visit to Araby, “a splendid bazaar.” When Managan’s sister spoke to him finally, it was to ask if he was going to Araby. She can’t go herself as she is to attend a convent retreat that weekend, and he tells her that if he goes he will bring her something back.

Araby is a difficult thing to give it a precise definition. In the major part of the cases Araby is associated with neither childhood nor respectable adulthood. The overall space remains to be unexamined. The story has its own enchantment. This enchantment is given to the story by the narrator.

 It’s another space entirely. The very name “cast[s] an Eastern enchantment over” the narrator. He nearly doesn’t make it there when his uncle forgets to return home in time to give him money to go. But finally, after an anxious train journey, the narrator arrives at the bazaar at ten minutes to ten on Saturday night.

 The story of adulthood that combines the motives taken from the childhood – this moment is the prevailing moment in the story. The narrator of the story can be described as rather masterful. The story is the successful attempt of the narrator to trace the childhood issues. “Araby” has all rights to be regarded as one of the best stories of modernity.

William Wordsworth's "We Are Seven" has all the features of a lyrical ballad. The story is revealed to the reader through the skillful choice of phrases. In my perception “We are Seven” - is a justified attempt of the writer to connect both past and present. The perceptions of the little girl are connected with her surrounding.

The work by William Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven” is the wonderful picture of the destructing forces of societal interference. In his story the narrator attempts to disrupt the natural process of child development. He introduces his own corrections of the child’s perceptions.

The main theme of Wordsworth’s ballad is the theme of corruption that society uses to destroy nature’s innocence. According to the author, mankind is a force that is able to create its own definition of what can be defined as correct or incorrect. According to the author, children have all rights to be regarded as the purest of all humans. This group of people is able to experience and society’s impact of these forces on its structure.

                                                            References:

 William Wordsworth's "We Are Seven". New York University Press. 2000

James Joyce “Araby” New York University Press. 1999