ENGL102
Maturity, Lust and Love
Searching for love many people try to buy love and be boastful in order for the desires of someone, but in reality that kind of love does not work. Do you remember the first time you fell in love with your best friend in the neighborhood? Or perhaps you had a crush on the boy in your class so much that you hope he liked you back. How about imagining the boy/girl you like, to be this way or that. You know where I am going with this. Maturity, lust and love is usually filled with surprises and frustration. Frustrations of love and the maturing age that young adolescent deals with to include our narrator.
For some it may be ideal, for others it may a heart ache but for him it was confusing. There’s the resentment, the scorns, frowns and gloomy depressed similarities that I have noticed in the short story “Araby”.
In “Araby”, we know that the narrator is a maturing young lad who lives with his uncle and aunt in a cul-de-sac neighborhood according to lines 5 where it states “an uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind end”. From this verse alone the empty houses makes the entire neighborhood seems bleak, deserted, unsettled, boring, dull yet quiet which is a description of his lifestyle as a whole. So to spice things up, his aroused sexual desires imagines him trying to date a sister that his friend Mangan never had. He tends to daydream in the back drawing room where he acquires his knowledge of this world. Our story makes a drastic shift form boring to excite for our narrator. On this detailed crush on his friend’s sister that I believe with noted facts is all an imagination from his figurative description of her as stated in the first and second stanza.
Her figure is defined by the light, her presence appears to be in the back drawing room having a conversation with him though there is no planned arrangements, or physical evidence of her entering or leaving the room. Further readings even reveals that he kept her figure in his eyes morning after morning but never spoken to her, except for a few casual words.
The narrator even went on to have her image in places not set for romance. He walked next to her morning after morning. This is where my ideas concluded that Mangan’s sister is not physically present in these events noted because he speaks to her before he actually does. While in the drawing room she speaks to him in question of the bazaar.
His maturity level, the desires of lust and love has frustrates our narrator when he is unable to purchase the gift he wants for this girl. His uncle arrives home late, he didn’t have enough money, he reached the bazaar late and was more furious when he saw the vases and tea sets. He thought of his wild goose chase after a life that was not there and realize that his lifestyle will continue to be the same in Dublin. Searching for love many people try to buy love and be boastful in order for the desires of someone, but in reality that kind of love does not work.