Directions: Answer the following prompts in at least four sentences each. Include at least one piece of textual evidence in your responses for items two and three.
1) In what way does “Araby” seem to lack a traditional literary plot?
2) Discuss the young narrator’s infatuation he develops with his friend’s sister. Why do you think Joyce chooses to have Mangan’s sister remain unnamed in the story?
3) In literature, a main character often experiences an epiphany, which is a moment when the character gains deeper insight into the meaning of something. Objects or events can trigger the epiphany for the character. Though it may not seem obvious at first to the reader, the narrator in “Araby” definitely has an inner realization at the story’s end. What do you think his epiphany is? What has he learned?
