Week 11:


         Both "Araby" and "Eveline" written by James Joyce are set in Ireland. The boy and Eveline both are outsiders in there societies. Evelin and the boy both have dreams of what there life can be like. Also have to remember in both of the stories the characters experienced poverty much like most of Ireland in that time period.

         For the boy his dream was to be with his friend Magnans much older sister. He goes to the Araby to by her a gift. Eveline has a vision of what her life will be like once she leaves her brother and abusive father behind in Ireland while she wants to leave with her lover frank to live in buenos aires. But like the boy in "Araby " who has second thoughts about buying her the gift, Eveline can only think about the good times she shared with with father and brother and forgetting all the bad.

          At this moment both the boy and Eveline 's thoughts over came them they started over thinking there current decisions and they both began to have a meltdown. They both begin to second guess everything wondering if they were wrong , if Magnans sister never told the boy to go to the Araby or if she really wanted to abandon her family even though she promised her dead mother she would maintain the home.