Based on the quote below, what change has the protagonist of "Araby" by James Joyce undergone? "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a...

The referenced
quote is a signaturemechanism
used to show the revealing loss of innocence hisendures. The young
boy, who
is on the cusp of his adolescent years, begins a quest to prove his love to an
older
girl. The adolescent girl expresses a desire to visit a local bazaar
called . However, due to a
prior commitment, she cannot go. The young man
promises to pick her up a gift from Araby market,
and he begins his quest to
fulfill his promise to the young lady.

The boy has
a
romanticized idea of what love is; moreover, it is his own self-importance that crashes
down
around him. He arrives at the fair as it begins to close, and the bazaar
is not as he had
envisioned it. It is rather gloomy and
uninspiring.

An older girl tending a
stall interrupts
her...

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