The Downgrading Demise of Love :: English Literature

The Downgrading Demise of LoveNorth Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street. (198).Ignorance is a harmful distinguish of mind, which gives a false sense ofhappiness to those consumed by it. Ignorance does not allow one tomature by experience of actual events. It shelters ones intuition ofactual events by giving illusions of hope. It allows the imaginationto instill more meaning into an incident, where there is none. InAraby, James Joyce represents how the boy overcomes his obliviousstate through irony, epiphany, and symbolism.An demonstrable example found in the story is the immense amount of ironyused throughout Araby. The boy has the idea that fill out is alwaysperfect and the love he holds for Mangans sister is perfect. In thereal world, however, he has an aunt and uncle that show what lovereally is like. When his uncle arrives home late to take him to thebazarre, his aunt begins to present and demand that he give the boy somemoney to go to the bazarre (989). The boy completely ignores thisglimpse at real life. The boy realizes how life is not perfect andthat love is full of compromises. He begins his trip to the bazarreand is excited on the train to arrive at this electrifying event. Hisidea of the bazarre is that it will be a wonderful place that willmake Mangans sister fall in love with him. However, when he arrives,he witnesses a dark, dismal place with a grim surrounding (990).Through all the irony in his life, he realizes that he is thatopposite of what he is trying to be.Perhaps one of the greatest credentials, which illustrate how the boyis oblivious to the world, is that he realizes his ignorance. Allthroughout the story, there are innuendoes that he is missingsomething. Some of these hints range from the symbolic blind housesto his own cordial absence at the gathering before he finally gets togo to the fair. His proceeding into the dark, half-closed fair, ratherthan face the truth that he missed it initially, shows he just doesnot g et it. Then, however, his realization occurs. In a moment ofepiphany, the boy is enlightened to how he has missed even the mostobvious fact. On his stopping point to have his life, as he wants it,he does not realize until the epiphany that Mangans sister neverlikes him. The boy becomes conscious to the fact that he has missedhis fortune from the start. The boy sees for himself that he has