Ernest Hemingway's Use Of Setting In Araby

The setting of a story has many different elements. First it includes the place, which is where the story takes place. Next, it has the time, this can include the hour, year, minute, or even the century. The time of a story is important because it gives you an idea of how people would have lived in the time or it can even just tell you if it is during the day or night. Setting also tells you what the weather would be in the story. In some stories, it is crucial to know the weather to fully understand what is going on. The setting is a very important part of understanding the feeling and mood of the characters and the stories plot.
The story “Araby” takes place in in the late eighteen hundred’s or the early nineteen hundred’s in a lower income

The boy is interrelated to the setting because it was gloomy and that can represent how his heart was broken by his first love. This can also show how his dream of going to the bazaar with her was shattered. The darkness can also represent all of the dark disillusions of growing up and all the struggles he has and will face. Even though most of the story is described as dark and dull there are also instances where some light is brought into the setting. When describing the sky above his street it says, “the space of the sky above was the color of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns” (Joyce 297). The narrator having put some descriptions of light could be showing how even though life has some dark, sad moments there is always some light to be seen and there are some good times. When using the words “ever-changing” the narrator can be talking about how getting older is a course of continuous change just like how the sky is always changing

The setting changes this because it gives you so much detail on how he lives, why his life is dull, and what circumstances he must deal with. Without the setting, we would not know what time period he lived in, we would not know where he lived and how his life is so affected by his environment, or what season and time of day he is in. This is a story that is very influenced by the setting because the whole beginning of the story is describing where the boy lives, then it is describing the shops, and last it is describing the Araby bazaar. The setting also happens to be a huge impact for the conclusion of the story because when he finally gets to the bazaar and see’s that it is not a huge, festive event that he thought it was going to be but instead just a little event that is supposed to raise money for the church, which in turn helped him realize that his idealized version of the girl being so perfect is not