What of the writer's life can we see in "Araby" by James Joyce?

The
overarching theme in "" is stagnation, and this theme is a particularly important one
for. As a boy, Joyce watched as his family disintegrated, brought down by his father's love of
rowdiness, drink, and generally not working. Like so many other Irishmen suffering the
oppression of English rule, Joyce's father seemed to have little motivation to...