1: Which aspects about Mangan’s sister are highlighted in the description on page 19?
Feel free to comment on the quotes “She held one of the spikes… she stood at ease” (the top) and “I may have stood there…below the dress” (2nd last paragraph).
2: What does the main character hint at when he says that he “can interpret the signs”?
3: Comment on the symbolism in the description of the main character’s journey to the bazaar?
4: What had the narrator expected to find at Araby? What does he find?
5. Why is he so frustrated in the end?
1: Which aspects about Mangan’s sister are highlighted in the description on page 19? Feel free to comment on the quotes “She held one of the spikes… she stood at ease” (the top) and “I may have stood there…below the dress” (2nd last paragraph).
SvarSletFirst quote:
She is turning her bracelet, which shows her restless energy, and that she is nervous.
He comments her
Second quote:
He sees her curves – like in quote one.
She is becoming a woman, and is now brown – opposition to the glowing kids.
2: What does the main character hint at when he says that he “can interpret the signs”?
The uncle is drunk, and very aggressive. He forgot the boy’s appointment, and didn’t give him the money right away – show, don’t tell.
3: Comment on the symbolism in the description of the main character’s journey to the bazaar?
The description is very chaotic. And even though he isn’t going that far away, he describes it as a journey. It is a comparison to the pilgrimage, and Mekka.
4: What had the narrator expected to find at Araby? What does he find?
He wants to find something for Mangan’s sister.
5. Why is he so frustrated in the end?
He is frustrated because his uncle came home to late. She is going to a convent, and therefore couldn’t go with him. He couldn’t find anything for Mangans’s sister. He is also disappointed with the place.
- Nanna 2.n
1: Which aspects about Mangan’s sister are highlighted in the description on page 19?
SvarSletFeel free to comment on the quotes “She held one of the spikes… she stood at ease” (the top) and “I may have stood there…below the dress” (2nd last paragraph).
-The curve of her neck, her hand, and her hair. He comments on how the light caught the border of her petticoat. And that shows again how he is studying her.
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2: What does the main character hint at when he says that he “can interpret the signs”?
-He knows the sounds when his uncle comes home, and he knows he is drunk or angry.
3: Comment on the symbolism in the description of the main character’s journey to the bazaar?
-it’s like he’s on a pilgrimage.
4: What had the narrator expected to find at Araby? What does he find?
- He expected it to be this great eastern place, but he is met by a tacky market where the people who stood behind the counters spoke with a British accent.
5. Why is he so frustrated in the end?
-He didn’t find anything he could bring home to Mangan’s sister and it didn’t live up to his expectations.
-Olivia Madsen
Thomas 2.N
SvarSlet1: Which aspects about Mangan’s sister are highlighted in the description on page 19?
Feel free to comment on the quotes “She held one of the spikes… she stood at ease” (the top) and “I may have stood there…below the dress” (2nd last paragraph).
"She held on of the spikes": the main character notices the physical about Mangan´s sister. This is a sexual experience for him. He looses himself in her body.
"I may have stood": Again he looses himself in her body. A sexual experience.
2: What does the main character hint at when he says that he “can interpret the signs”?
"the hallstand rocked": When the hallstands rocks the uncle must have really struck it hard. That means the uncle is drunk and the main character knows this. He also hides outside when the uncle arrives, which we saw earlier.
3: Comment on the symbolism in the description of the main character’s journey to the bazaar?
The main character imagines himself as a knight on a quest. He has a florin tightly in his hand, he is in bare carriage and timidly he walks in the bazaar like it was a church. He seeks salvation: he hopes that finding something for the girl he's infituated with will get him closer to the girl.
4: What had the narrator expected to find at Araby? What does he find?
The main character does not find something for Mangan´s sister as he planned to do. But he finds out that he is only a "creaty driven and derided by vanity". He finds out that he is a bit superficial and not as spirual as he imagines.
5. Why is he so frustrated in the end?
The main character gets frustrated because he finds out who he really is. He was not as spiritual as imagined but only an animal driven by vanity.
- Abdi
SvarSlet1. He indulges in her physical attributes, he notices the way the clothes falls on her body, and he takes time to enjoy it.
2. His uncle comes home drunk, and this is indicated by the fact that the hallstand rocks, when he places his coat on it. This is a change of style by Joyce and he makes use of a minimalistic style. Earlier we discovered that the main character is scared of the uncle and this is a continuation of the description of him.
3. He pictures himself inside a carriage, carrying a florin penny (which is an original medieval penny from Florence). He still sees himself as a night on a quest.
4. He seeks some sort of salvation in an attempt to attract Mangan’s sister. The bazaar is described as some sort church, and he walks “timidly” to the center (as if he’s about to perform a prayer).
He discovers that he himself was driven by vanity and sexual lust when he came to Araby. This is because of the fact that Araby is very much superficial, materialistic and vain and not the spiritual place he imagined. The appearance of the British women (who represent the repressors of the Irish people) doesn’t help.
5. He has these ground-breaking discoveries on his own motives and desires which frustrates him.
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SvarSlet1: Which aspects about Mangan’s sister are highlighted in the description on page 19?
Feel free to comment on the quotes “She held one of the spikes… she stood at ease” (the top) and “I may have stood there…below the dress” (2nd last paragraph).
He thinks of her as an angle, and he is sexually attracted to her.
2: What does the main character hint at when he says that he “can interpret the signs”?
He could be drunk.
3: Comment on the symbolism in the description of the main character’s journey to the bazaar?
He is all alone, it is kind of like a pilgrimage, throughout the hole way he is alone.
4: What had the narrator expected to find at Araby? What does he find?
He expects to find an eastern bazar, with a lot of new smells and a lot of people. But he finds a dark hall with English people selling the things, and they are not very nice.
5. Why is he so frustrated in the end?
He has this image in his head of how everything would be when he got to the bazar, but then everything goes wrong, he does not get the money from Uncle, and when he get to the bazar, it is nothing like what he had thought, and he is not ably to buy anything to the girl like he promised.
1. In the first quote he admires her beautiful look. He is very fascinated about her and describes her like something divine.
SvarSletThe second quote are also describing how he feels about her and her femininity
2. It is probably a hint to the Uncles alcoholism. The way he throws his jacket and the comment his wife says: “Can’t you give him the money and let him go? You kept him late enough as it is.” She’s impatient with his husband, probably because he is drunk.
3. The trip to the bazaar is very chaotic and it is sort of a heroic journey for him.
4. In the narrators mind the bazaar is something you actually see in the Eastern area. Instead it is sort of tourist minded and he is very disappointed.
--- Laura 2.n
1. The narrator is completely absorbed in Mangan's sister and her comfort. He is obsessed by the way she presents herself, which is expressed by his careful description of her body.
SvarSlet2. The narrator understands the signs and realizes that his uncle is drunk. He is late, he talking to himself and he has heated movements - the hallstand is rocking (show, not tell)
3. It is a symbol of the narrator's comparison with a knight. He held a florin, which is an old coin and he travels in a carriage.
Mai
Thrane 2.N Engelsk
SvarSlet1:
The narrator is decribing Megan's sister with a lot of sensual words considering her body. He is obsessed by her and the way she present herself.
2:
What the narrator means with this qoute is that the uncle is very aggresive and angry because of the way he acts when he comes through the door(show not tell). He is differently drunk.
3:
The journey to the bazzar is a symbol of the narrator comparision with a knight.
"I held a florin tightly in my hands"
Is an old coin nd she travels in a carrige
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5.
1. We can imagine how she looks and how the main charcater really sees her, these quote says that in a really good way.
SvarSletThe first quote says something about how the main character sees Mangan´s sister. When the light hits her, it sort of tells us that he sees her like an angel, something beautiful and maybe dressed in white and innocent. The main character is really fazinated by her.
The second qoute is also a great example of how fazinated the main character is of her, but the difference is, that in this quote he is facinating about her body, so we can tell that the main charcter has sexual thoughts about her too. He think he is sweet and innocent, but at the same time he sees her as a sexy woman. He is very attracted to her.
2. I think when the main character is saying this, he means that he can "sense" that the uncle is drunk. The fact that he forgets what he had promised the main character, tells us that it probabbly didnt mean that much to him, or else he would have remembered and not just get himself drunk.
Smitt og Bandholtz
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SvarSlet1) He describes how beautiful she looks standing by the railing and throwing her hair from side to side. The light also turns on her, which almost makes her seem like an angle.
2) In the next quote it’s almost the same thing, but here we hear a lot more of how her body looks and the fact that she’s “brown-clad”, and that tells us that she’s not a girl anymore, but on her way to becoming a woman.
2. That he has seen this behavior from his uncle before, so hearing all the noises when he arrives home, tells us that the uncle is a bit drunk.
4. He thought he would find something totally different then he did. He only found a regular market with hostile people trying to sell their stuff.
5. What I said in question 4. He looks up into darkness, because that's how he feel: angry, frustrated and dissapointed because he wanted it to be something magical, and it was not.
.. Swupper.
1: Which aspects about Mangan’s sister are highlighted in the description on page 19?
SvarSletFeel free to comment on the quotes “She held one of the spikes… she stood at ease” (the top) and “I may have stood there…below the dress” (2nd last paragraph).
The main character sees Mangan's sister both as an angel, but also he feels sexually attracted to her.
“The light …. Border of a petticoat”: Even though she is describes sacred – “angel-ish”, he mentions her petticoat. He looks at her in two different ways.
2: What does the main character hint at when he says that he “can interpret the signs”?
It means that the uncle is angry. He has seen the behavior of the uncle before.
The uncle could be drunk
3: Comment on the symbolism in the description of the main character’s journey to the bazaar?
It is described like a pilgrimage. He goes by himself – “The sight of the streets thronged with buyers…. “
4: What had the narrator expected to find at Araby? What does he find?
He expect some kind of an eastern fantastic place, instead he finds a dark and silent place. Also he meets some British people.
5. Why is he so frustrated in the end?
He is very disappointed. He did not find anything he could give to mangan’s sister, but also the place was way different of what he had imagined.
SARAH