In Araby, Joyce writes these sentences, but they become to have some larger purposes than describing the story. These sentences have become to have connotations have light and darkness.
With the light, Joyce seemed to have almost all to deal with Megan's Sister. These give you a sense being light, not in your weight, but in your soul. His writing give you the feeling of being in love, but at the same time the actual text is giving off the idea of Magan's sister is pure and innocent, with the juxtaposition of the light in darkness. Joyce describes Magan's sister as a " figure defined by the light from the half-opened door... Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side" Joyce describes her as if she is emitting light.
Joyce included the contrast of the light with darkness. He places these sentences with the feeling of darkness when describing where the story is in, Dublin. Joyce describes his home as a "uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbors in a square ground." Joyce included words with darkness connotations, such as blind and detached. These thing pertain to broken, or useless things, which is how I felt he is describing the city, as a useless place of destruction.
Joyce ends the story with the character at the bazaar, looking up to the dark sky, and wishing to be somewhere else. Joyce, throughout The Dubliners commented on his feelings of it being a dark place, but in Araby he uses the contrast between his wants,his dreams, which are symbolized as Magan's sister, as relating to some kind of lightness, whether it be a actual light or a feeling. He then contrast that with the descriptions of his currents state, his reality, which is the dark descriptions of the town and life there.
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