Love
givesor appears to give, at any ratethe unnamed narrator a way out of his deadening, humdrum
existence. The young boy's feelings for Mangan's sister provide him with a glimpse into another
world, a world full of promise, excitement, and romance. But a glimpse is ultimately all it can
give him, for the boy's hopes and dreams are dashed as he arrives too late at the bazaar, just
as the stalls are closing down.
It's difficult to imagine anything other
than love that can raise your hopes like this, which makes the emotional fallout all the harder
to deal with when it is dashed so cruelly on the rocks of cold, hard reality. But therein lies
the intoxicating power of...
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