What is the significance of the title of the story "Araby" by James Joyce?

Its
significance lies in the vision of an exotic world it conjures up for the story's young . This
strange, exciting bazaar is suggestive of the mystical East, a far-off land full of romance and
adventure. As with all of Joyce's stories in , a stark contrast is drawn
between the mundane, deadening state of contemporary Ireland and a more soulful, more intense,
more fully human existence elsewhere.

is an ideal world, as far removed from
the boy's daily life as possible. This land of the imagination is mysterious, untouched,
something infinitely desirable. Yet it remains nothing more than a fantasy. When the boy arrives
at the bazaar only to find that it's closing down he's brought crashing back down to earth. His
boyish infatuation with Mangan's sister is also exposed as an unrealizable fantasy. Araby stands
for everything the boy wants but cannot have. Ideal love is precisely that, and so cannot be
achieved. The boy's incipient romantic feelings are fantastical, far-off and completely out of
reachjust like Araby.