The title is so
appropriate for this piece because it is thebazaar that seems as though it will give the
narrator his opportunity to escape his dull life and his opportunity to find a gift for Mangan's
sister, which will make her fall in love with him the way he feels himself to be in love with
her. The narrator is quite a romantic, feeling that her "name sprang to [his] lips at
moments in strange prayers and praises which [he] did not understand." His eyes fill with
tears when he thinks of her, and his "confused adoration" turns him into a kind of
musical instrument that only her words or gestures can play.
The Araby
bazaar is the subject of the first conversation they ever have together. She wishes she could
go, and so he promises to bring her something if he goes. Thoughts of the bazaar become bound up
with thoughts of her, and both "cast an Eastern enchantment over" him. He imagines
himself like some kind of grail-chasing knight, bearing his "chalice safely through a
throng of...
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