Ending with the narrator's eyes burning "with anguish and anger" upon seeing himself as "a creature driven and derided by vanity," this story features a failed expedition to the title bazaar in order to buy a gift for Mangan's sister.
In the collection this story appears in, it precedes a story about a woman who decides not to leave for Buenos Aires with her lover Frank. The protagonist discovers copies of Walter Scott's The Abbot and The Memoirs of Vidocq, which he likes better because its pages are yellowed. The narrator becomes agitated at the visiting Mrs. Mercer and the delayed arrival of his uncle, who starts to recite The Arab's Farewell to his Steed before the narrator leaves for the title location. Ending with the narrator's eyes burning "with anguish and anger" upon seeing himself as "a creature driven and derided by vanity," this story features a failed expedition to the title bazaar in order to buy a gift for Mangan's sister. FTP, identify this short story from Dubliners.
In the collection this story appears in, it precedes a story about a woman who decides not to leave for Buenos Aires with her lover Frank.
“{Araby}”