Araby In James Joyce's A & P

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You are right that the love from the boy of Araby can be perceived as more sincere. This could be by the fact that he is just a boy that he only spent his time playing with his friend, but when the presence of girl comes to the picture for the first time, everything that he feels is relatively new, so that could be why James Joyce portraits the boy as a unexperienced and innocent boy. Furthermore, with your analysis, Sammy from A&P we can labeled him as more experienced male in terms of girls, in comparison to the boy of Araby. That is to say, we can analyze that the girls on bathing suit could represent something different from the literal meaning of bolds girls entering a supermarket. From the quote that you posted “held their high” instead

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