In order to
effect the brutal epiphany of the teenaged boy's disillusionment at the end of ","
writeremploys a ironic tone through the use of the adult narrator who recounts a tale of his
foolish, romantic youth. For, this ironic tone in its presentation of the illusionary
imagination of the boy foreshadows all the more the collision of the boy's illusions with the
harsh reality of the banality of the bazaar.
On the "sombre"
street of brown houses in the "cold air" through "dark muddy lanes" the
romantic boy envisions a saint-like Mangan's sister who is defined by a light behind her as she
stands in the half-opened door. At this vision,...
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