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In James Joyce’s “Araby”, the narrator depicts what love ideally meant to the main character and what it was in actuality. The boy in the story is overcome with sensual desire for this young girl; he’s straying away from everything around his life as he undergoes the pain of love. Emotional desire to be with his “true love” prevailed over him and he wanted nothing but to be with her. But soon enough reality hits and he realizes that his love only truly existed in his mind. For the reason that romantic love is treated as a mere thought that exists in one’s mind rather than a reality. The narrator’s main character depicts the inevitable disappointment and realization of the true nature of love in this world. “Observing me the young lady came over and asked me did I wish to buy anything. The tone of her voice was not encouraging; she seemed to have spoken to me out of a sense of duty […] the young lady changed the position of one of the vases and went back to the two young men.”(599) The boy’s sense of love was destroyed at the bazaar when the young lady showed more interest in the two men flirting with her than him.
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Week 1 question 3
A&P
After reading this selection, I felt that it was a good depiction of Romantic Love that so many of us have experienced. In my opinion, romantic love and true love are defined differently. True love lasts forever; it takes time to build and can endure anything. True love includes romance and is a feeling that is based on much more than the superficial body. Romantic love is grown more on physical attraction and tends to alter as different circumstances happen and remains a more impermanent love. Yet in both cases, love causes one to make decisions that might alter his/her life. A&P supports my belief that romantic love is initiated with physical attraction, when Sammy stares at “this clean bare plane on the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilled in the light. I mean, it was more than pretty.” Sammy is so intrigued by “Queenie” that he can’t seem to get his eyes off of her. He develops a bit of a crush on her and hoping to impress her, he makes a decision that he knew he would forever regret. A&P describes what a boy’s infatuation can lead him to do. Similar to “Araby”, the main female character in the story describes a woman of importance, power, and beauty. In essence, A&P describes some of the choices that we get stuck with in life as a result of being blinded by romantic love.