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Discussion: The point of view in the story "Araby," by James Joyce was written in a first-person perspective. He uses, "I, We, and Our" throughout the story. The word Araby is a romantic term which was used to express romantic views in the Middle East. The young boy was in love with his friends sister which she lived across the street from the young boy. His infatuation grew for the girl that he even dreamed of her in the light of his door catches, "the white curve of her neck." The boy states that every morning he would lay on the floor in the parlor watching her door. (Joyce, 1916). His heart leaped when she came out on the doorstep. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which myself did not understand." (Joyce, 1916). The boy was really in love with his friends sister until one day, he finds her flirting with other teenage boys he realized that he was the only one that have romantic feelings.

My interpretation of the story is that I believed the boy and the girl would have been a perfect couple because he fantasied how and what he wanted to do with her even in his dreams. This was is fantasy and not hers. The boy stated, "Gazing up onto the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." He did not get a chance to buy the girl anything and he did not win his friends sister affection.

If it was a different type of narration like in the third-person, the story would not speak of the I, we, and our persons. It would change to them, they or us and change the interpretation. Then it would speak about "them" being infatuated with girls and going to the bazaar together as a group of people.