I will pay for the following article James Joyce Araby. The work is to be 5 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. Landmark legal decisions were made on obscenity through the explicit content, which he presented through his prose. He suffered eye ailments all his life. In 1941, he died. Joyce was considered as one of the most revered writers of the 20th century. Ulysses is one of his landmark book. It is hailed as one of the finest novels ever written (Joyce, n.p, n.d). Araby is a short story that was published in the 1914 in Dubliners, which is a collection of Joyce’s stories. It is a short story which talks about an adolescent boy who is emerging into the harsh realities of life in his country from boyhood. This story is a personal experience of Joyce while growing up in Dublin in the nineteenth century. In 1984, Ireland was suffering resistance under British rule. Joyce framed the story based on his own experience during these times. The fictional narrator of Araby lived on North Richmond Street (No 17). This was in the central part of the city. The background of the narrator reflects to that of James Joyce. He like the fictional narrator lived there. During those times, Joyce was going through the period of self-discovery. The narrator of Araby was in the same state. However, Joyce was not an orphan like the narrator of the story. Joyce presented Dublin as a bleak city that is struggling against oppressive forces, in Araby and other stories of Dubliners. In the South of Dublin, the climatic scenes take place, whereas the winter scenes took place in the nearby lanes of North Richmond Street (Araby, n.p, n.d). The imagery of light and darkness has been used which reinforces the theme and the characters. The story tells its readers how much an ordinary man starts expecting more than the ordinary reality can provide. This often results in disappointment and disillusionment. The author to explain the gloomy town of Araby wherein the boy lives uses dark and obscure references. Such references are used to highlight the town of Araby. Inorder to create a mood and atmosphere, the author uses dark and gloomy references. While talking about Mangan’s sister, the setting is changed and bright light references are used. the characterization of the boy as the narrator and his point of view depicts is explained through the setting. Throughout the story, darkness has been used as a prevailing theme. The story starts with dusk and continues through the evening in winters of Araby, Ireland. Such a gloomy setting is selected to be the home of the boy who has an infatuation over the sister of the neighbor. The young boy is naive who leads a dull and boring life. The boy’s life is explained through using darkness as a tool to make the reality more vivid. In order to show a life of fairy tales and the world of illusions and dreams, bright light is used. Bright light is used specifically when Mangan’s sister is being discussed. Imagining that he would bring back something for her from the bazaar, the protagonist falls in love with the neighbor’s sister. It is mostly to create a joyful atmosphere and to give Mangan’s sister a heavenly presence that the author has chosen to use the bright light (Araby, n.p, n.d). James wrote Araby as something the readers can relate to. It varies from the familiarity of everyday drudgery with consequences which are frustrating, to the allure of new love and distant places. Mangan’s sister embodies the mingling.