In James Joyce's Araby, what does the language reveal about the boy, about how he see himself,about how he envisions what he is doing and thinking?

s short
story is a reflection of the authors experiences as an Irish
writer during the early 20th Century (the story was first published in 1914).  What the poet
W.B. Yeats called a terrible beauty, Ireland was entering a stage of increased anti-England
militarism while the start of the Great War was brewing on the continent.  While the issue of
Irish nationalism is not a major, or even a minor theme of Araby ,
it does loom in the background.  Early in the story, Joyces narrator, a young boy on the verge
of enormous physical and emotional transformations, describes the scene in which he, the aunt
and uncle who are raising him, and his friends exist.  Within this description are two subtle
references to the Troubles: . . .the nasal chanting of street-singers, who sang a come-all-you
about O'Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles in our native land.  Jeremiah ODonovan
Rossa was an early Irish nationalist and leader of the movement for...