What do Mangan's sister and Araby each represent for the narrator in "Araby"?

In this
coming-of-age story the young narrator
discovers that he will not find the exotic and
imaginative "other" that he
craves in the confines of Dublin. Both Mangan's sister and
the bazaar, ,
represent that magical "other." In fact, the two conflate into one, to
the
point that the bazaar's potentially Asian-sounding name almost seems to be the name of
the
girl. Thus, the bazaar represents his friend's unnamed sister, on whom
the narrator has a
crush.

The narrator lives in a "blind"
alley. A "blind"
alley is a cul-de-sac or dead end street, but the word acts
in the story as a double entendre,
also representing the boy's own
blindness.

When he gets too late to the
bazaar, which is
very ordinary after all, the narrator has an epiphany in which his eyes open.

He realizes that both the bazaar and, hence, to his mind, the girl have nothing to offer
him.
His dreams have been a hollow illusion.

It would be
interesting to analyze
the girl and the bazaar in light of Edward Said's idea
of...