In "Araby" we are presented with a young boy who has a very active fantasy life and is obsessed with the girl next door. He spends a considerable amount of time fantasizing about her. She dominates his thoughts. He is a dynamic character because as the story progresses he becomes more and more obsessed with her. He begins to idealize her and she becomes his angel. He can not get her out of his mind " Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises, which I myself did not understand"

We see the story through the boy's eyes revealing his fantasies. She becomes this angel, this heavenly creature that takes over his mind. The boy uses this angel

" Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears like the word gnomon in Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism."

Religion is obviously an aspect that Joyce did not think highly of. He felt it was to full of rules. Don't ask questions and mind your business. James left Ireland for this reason. Joyce asked this question, you can't live without asking questions?

It is at the end when the boy realizes reality and that he cannot be with an angel. That his fantasy world of heaven can not be reached and that he is stuck in reality were he is living in a dead priests house and were his life is filled with darkness and gloom. He is forced to reckon with the fact that his idea of being with an angel was a fantasy and that he could never be with her.

If you don't follow the rules what ends up happening is paralysis. The rules of the church had paralyzed the priest. This is how he felt simony and gnomon was related to paralysis.

In "The Sisters" we find a boy who is dealing with death for the first ti

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Approximate Word count = 733
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)