What exactly is the epiphany in "Araby"?

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for creating characters who undergo an epiphanya sudden moment of insightand the narrator of
"" is one of his best examples At the end of the story, the boy overhears a trite
conversation between an English girl working at the bazaar and two young men, and he suddenly
realizes that he has been confusing things. It dawns on him that the bazaar, which he thought
would be so exotic and exciting, is really only a commercialized place to buy things.
Furthermore, he now realizes that Mangan's sister is just a girl who will not care whether he
fulfills his promise to buy her something at the bazaar. His conversation with Mangan's sister,
during which he promised he would buy her something, was really only small talkas meaningless as
the one between the English girl and her companions. He leaves Araby feeling ashamed and upset.
This epiphany signals a change in the narratorfrom an innocent, idealistic boy to an adolescent
dealing with the harsh realities of life.