"Araby"- James Joyce

As we learned in class this story has elements of irish literature. The boy in the story wanted nothing more than to get Mangan's attention so he went to araby to buy her a gift. At the end he was dissapointed that he couldn't find anything for her. The last line of the short story says "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger". I think the epiphany of the story is, he realized that love is not easy and not exactly what he thought it was, he was angry at the fact that he couldn't buy anything to win Mangan's heart.