Araby

Araby is about a boy who is in love with a girl who lives across the street. He has an imaginary conversation with her and decides to go to a bazaar to bring her back something.

Level One: Where does the boy live?
Level Two: What does the boy realize at the bazaar?
Level Three: Do you think the boy was foolish or deeply in love?

The boy realizes that he can't accomplish his goal to make the girl happy and like him. Everything starts to shut down and close and he becomes aware that what he was doing wasn't real. He couldn't find anything to give her. He says, "I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." By calling himself a creature, it shows he wasn't thinking in a sane way. He was driven by vanity by thinking that he could win the love of the girl and it changed him in a negative way.
I think that he was deeply in love which caused him to act foolishly. He was impatient with his uncle for the money he wanted, but the girl did not actually ask him to go to the bazaar for her. Instead of playing in street with his friends, he watched girl from a window. His thoughts were completely consumed about how he could win the love of the girl. The theme is the story is that love can cause people to act differently or do foolish things.