文档介绍：Major Themes : ? Coming of age ? The loss of innocence ? Alienation and Loneliness ? Imprisonment, and Paralysis (麻痹) : ? The Prison of Routine Discussion Questions ? Why does the speaker have a crush on Mangan's sister? What is appealing about her? ? What is Araby ? The speaker says it cast "an Eastern enchantment" over him. What does this mean? What does he seem to expect from Araby ? ? How does the story end? What happens to the main character? Does he change? If so, why? "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". ? The uncle seems to be subject to his own saying, since it suggests that he works so much he forgets about other important things in life. ? Acting nonchalant about the matter, Apparently " Araby " suggests that the prison of routine gets us to forget about other things apart from work Escape ? Alienation and Loneliness ,imprisonment and paralysis ? His fantasies about the bazaar and buying a great gift for the girl are revealed as ridiculous. For one thing, the bazaar is a rather tawdry (华丽的) shadow of the boy ‘ s dreams. He overhears the conversation of some of the vendors, who are ordinary English women, and the mundane (世俗的) nature of the talk drives home that there is no escape: bazaar or not, the boy is still in Dublin. Coming of age ? Dubliners ’ stories are arranged in an order reflecting the development of a child into a grown man. The first three stories are told from the point of view of a young boy, the next three from the point of view of an adolescent, and so on. ?" Araby " is the last story of the first set, and is told from the perspective of a boy just on the verge of adolescence. First unrequited love (单相思) ,sexual and sentimental awakening The lose of innocence: From : An innocent idealistic boy an adolescent dealing with harsh realities The lose of innocence: At the end of the story a trite conversation between an English girl working at the bazaar and two young men confused Mangan'