What Does Mangan's Sister Mean

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Mangan's sister represents the narrator’s romantic and spiritual confusion of his youth. He says she is, “like a summons to all my foolish blood.” Her physical description is a reflection of how he views her. He describes her as being extremely beautiful. As a reader we only receive his description of her so we don’t know how she actually looks. She is not given a name because she is a representation of his feelings. She is a figment of his imagination so a name is not necessary. This is similar to his idea of the bazaar. He goes expecting life and happiness and action, instead he goes there and realizes his hopes were pointless. When he gets to the bazaar he sees it is in fact dead, abandoned and mysterious.

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