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“Araby”: Yet Another Broken Heart James Joyce’s short story “Araby” (87) is an almost-perfect depiction of the incredible experience of falling out of innocence and into love, or the “experience” of love. Once a person sercums to love’s pull it is inevitable that they will behave perculiur, then irrational, and finally, sagaciously. As the young man in “Araby” is partaking in child’s play, he finds himself feeling the first pangs of his journey. “……

…laid plans did not work out and he “…began to walk up and down the room, clenching my fists.” As reality once again surfaces, he sees himself as “…a creature driven and derided by vanity.” Surely, at some point in everyone’s life, each has an experience of the power of love, and all it entails! Despite the risky, and usually inevitable outcome, who does not often think of their perchance, illogical, and awakening experience.