The Relationship Between Man and Woman in Araby

Araby James Joyce, an icon of the modernist era had many works that were moving away from the Graeco-Roman styles of literature put before him. Joyce is known for leading his characters towards some kind of personal insight and on the surface, Araby seems to be only well-nigh a son learning about the truth of capitalism. As you honkytonk deep in to his spoken communication and meaning however, it is apparent that Joyces message is not as gloomy and white as it appears on the surface. This horizontal surface is also about the relationship between men and women.It is about how women are capable of influencing a mans actions/behaviors and why men feel as if they aim to exert their dominance over women. Joyce purposely makes the protagonist a young male child who chases after an erstwhile(a) girl. He does this to elevate the status of the girl and portray her as larger than the boy. He is basic anyy saying early in the novel that woman has some kind of superiority over man. The beginning of the story is innocent enough, the boy explains how he plays in the street with his best friend (Mangan) and hides from his uncle so he doesnt have to go in.This is where the girl is introduced. Neither she nor the boy has a name hinting that they are representative of all men and women. The boy is absolutely infatuated with the girl and it is apparent in the paragraphs right after she is introduced. He watches her from afar, has a certain routine so that he passes her e real morning, and even imagines victory due to his passionateness as he walks through his marketplace. She is the focal point of all his thoughts and it is shown that he is helpless to her influence when he utters O lovemakingO love over and over in private. He is but a helpless romantic during this point of the story driven by his undeserving love for this girl. Their only conference is a brief, but huge one and what she says and how she acts says all. She plays with her bracelet, signifying the im portance of materialistic items in her life and communicating that she would love something from Araby by saying how she would love to go but weedt. The boy bites the bait hard and is subject immediately to be drug around by the idea of pleasing the girl.Her influence over him increases exponentially after this as he says that he cannot think of anything except her. He cant sleep, cant think, cant read, cant focus in class and is consumed with the hope that this sorcerous bazaar would grant him the key to the girls heart. All these things are clear signs that the girl holds ensure over him because he has lost all motivation for anything besides pleasing her. The story stays homogeneous this, with him obsessing over her until he actually gets to the bazaar as it is closing and his hopes start to fade.Araby is supposed to be this please place with wonderful people and remarkable, exotic items but the boy finds that there is nothing but platitude junk that he could get from his own marketplace. On top of that, he is met by a genuinely distasteful sales clerk who seems very uninterested in him. In most analyses, this is the point of the boys insight to the nature of capitalism and realizes that not everything is as pretty as it appears on the surface. This is a very important lesson but it is not the only change that occurs in the boy.The last line of the story is Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by conceit and my eyes burned with anguish and anger. Joyce definitely did not use passive intelligence activitys to describe the boys hurt but chooses a powerful, emotionally charged set of words that paints a very precise, borderline frightening image. He describes the boy as a creature, as if he has lost his gentlemans gentleman and been stripped down to a raw, instinctual beast. A desperate, pissed off animal driven by his whimsy of worthlessness with eyes burning from anger and a feeling of deep heartache.These ar e not words usually used to describe an epiphany about the nature of the world. These are words used to describe the feelings of losing something great, of getting your heart smashed, chewed up and spit out. These are words describing a feeling that this boy will never again want to feel. He realizes that he has opened himself up to be hurt and he was undeniably crushed by his inability to get something that would please the girl his heart yearns for. Joyce was a master of idioms and word choice. He was easily one of the great writers of his time and will always be recognized as such.He is known for writing about how stages in life affect a person as a whole and Araby is no different. Being a great writer of his time he is also a creation of the era he lived in. During his life men believed that they were superior to women, that woman were weak and that they needed a man to support them. It was believed that women were home to weak emotions and men only had time for strong ones mak ing them give way than women. To say that Joyce wrote a story in which he acknowledges that women have some kind upper afford on men may seem inept but he does a good communication channel of answering why men behaved and felt this way.His reason is that men cannot cope with these weak emotions so they leave off them out. The boy in the story Araby is met with his first heartbreak due to the fact that he cant please the girl that he so desperately desires and immediately becomes this inhuman creature full of anguish. In a time where men are supposed to be the bread-winners strong confident figures that controls their household, these feelings are unacceptable. It is why men must exhibit nothing but strong emotions and exude their dominance over women, for the upkeep of being emotionally shattered in the face of them.