Throughout "Araby," Joyce uses vivid descriptions and strong emotion as he tells about a young boy who is "in love" with a neighbor girl who goes out of his way to try and please her. There is a sentence that stands out to me the most, it is the very last one of the story. Joyce explains the intense frustration the boy feels once he realizes how foolish he is acting, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."
The boy represents the world and how we get caught up in material things of this world. The same way he was obsessed with this beautiful girl and ready to go to extreme lengths to satisfy her in order to get her to like him, we go out of our way to be accepted. Just as the boy, we often end up feeling foolish and are disappointed by our silly attempts to conform. He realizes that it's not worth it, this is a lesson that alot of us should learn and instead just be ourselves and be true to who we are.
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