Write a 13 pages paper on james joyce's araby from dubliners. Nothing of much substance seems to happen. And yet it is precisely this absence which makes “Araby” such an intriguing piece of fiction. B

Write a 13 pages paper on james joyce's araby from dubliners. Nothing of much substance seems to happen. And yet it is precisely this absence which makes “Araby” such an intriguing piece of fiction. Because the presentation of the events has hardly any interpretation built into it, the reader starts to take up ideas and themes and works with them himself or herself. The reader begins to formulate theories for answers that the text does not provide. This process brings a richness and depth to the short story that surely achieves what Joyce himself hoped for in his presentation of the real world, “out of the dreary sameness of existence, a measure of dramatic life may be drawn” (Joyce, 1959).

The plot of “Araby” can be approached in two distinct ways. The first is to see Joyce's narrative as merely a reporting of events. The style of the narration is precise and is, on the whole, devoid of any extraneous detail or description, shown by the predominance of simple sentences in which the subject, I, and the verb begin a succession of clauses: “I sat staring at the clock... I left the room. I mounted the staircase...