/lit/ - Literature

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What does Araby bazaar represent?

>>6465045
the exotic, the romantic,glamour
an escape from the everyday grubbiness
but whoops turns out its pretty grubby and useless too

>>6465053
and the girl who just want the boy to buy just anything?

>>6464111
Nah, you have to read Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake. And fart on one of them too.

>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature.
>If you want to talk about politics, go to /pol/.

>political literature
>censorship

Really, /lit/?

>>6465059
There are books about everything. Fuck off.

>>6465057
that too. It's his chance to impress a girl he likes. But his opportunity is wasted. He is frustrated that he gets there too late. The bazaar is closing. I don't remember...did he have any money to buy her anything anyway?

>>6464111
might as well read Portrait of the Artist if you like Dubliners

>>6465059
remember, the mods do it for free

>>6465126
things change. Only one thing is constant.
Only one thing never changes.

And that is the janitor's salary.

>>6465045
I thought it could be a realization about his unrealistic love for Mangan's sister which was really more like adulation or worship for a girl who he has barely talked to.

>>6465099
He got a florin from his uncle, then went into the shilling entrance. I'm American, but I think a florin is two shillings, so he should have had a shilling left to buy something.
Toward the end he says "I allowed the two pennies to fall against the sixpence in my pocket." I have no idea about their worth.

But he definitely had at least some money. He was explicitly asked to buy something from a lady selling vases and tea-sets. He ends up not buying any of it, but it's unclear whether he declines because it was too expensive or because he was already starting to realize that he was "a creature driven and derided by vanity."

Prior to being offered something for sale from the lady, he remembers "with difficulty" why he came (to buy something for Mangan's sister) and then finds Englishmen counting money and listens to their banal conversation. Then he decides not to buy anything and has his realization. So he can barely remember why he came, and for him, the magical exotic bazaar ends up amounting to a few Englishmen counting money and having a boring conversation. I think that answers your question—he could have bought something, but he decided not to.

A Little Cloud is the goat story

>>6465157
>not A Painful Case

/lit/ the short story

yes absolutely