pattern – at least until the last scene of the story. It presents the romantic realm of the boy’s imagination (Schechter 409).
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In Anatomy of Literature, Foulke and Smith comment about the blind or dead-end street goes through very detailed descriptions of the place, including most of the major elements of the advent and initiation phase of romantic narrative. The boy imagines someone he loves close to religious adoration and magic realm. They conclude that “Araby” could be read, as an ironic narrative for one of the typical devices of irony is the reversal of a romantic pattern. The story also portraits Joyce as an uncertain child.
Another story, which could be cited by the same authors in the attempt to figure out Narrative Irony, is “My Kinsman Major Molineux,” written by Hawthorne (Schechter 191-206), which suggests a romance momentarily. As Hughes comments, “cities are dark and labyrinthine, lit only by the ominous carnival lights that flicker through Hawtorne’s analyzed story (Hughes 868). Robin Molineux watches the pillars of a city building become the trees of home in an experience that taunts him with his ineptitude” (Hughes 869). His experience goes through a rite of passage from an immature life to a mature state of conscience. In the last sentence a journey can be speeded by a gentleman, when Robin is looking for a ferry, with the invitation to stay. He would not need Major Molineux. It means he could be important without being helped by anyone. He was young, symphatetic, and a good observer, an outsider treated as a vagabond. A stranger treated with indifference and arrogance, expecting to meet