What does the bazaar represent in the story? how does joyce develop the symbolic meaning of the bazaar throughout the story?

The bazaar represents the exotic and romantic feeling, the innocence of the young boy which later turns to be just an illusion.

Joyce used the image of the bazaar "Araby" as something akin to a pilgrimage from one place to another place that is exotic and different, a development from childhood to adulthood.

Explanation:

James Joyce's "Araby" is from his "Dubliners", a collection of short stories. In it, he uses the voice of the small boy to show the illusions of an individual, his expectations dashed and ruined.

The narrator, the young boy, had been infatuated with Mangan's sister and had wanted to impress her. The bazaar "Araby" represents something, someplace where things are different from his usual boring place. There, everything is exotic and better, like his feelings for the girl. But turns out, not everything is how we expect it to be. The exoticism of the bazaar represents the unrealistic dreams of the young boy. But once he had seen the bazaar himself, he realizes that it's all the same. His innocence and illusions are shattered, leaving him with nothing but the harsh reality of life. The symbolic meaning of the bazaar stayed throughout the story, for it's representation of an innocence lost amidst the reality of life.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”