Caught in a Landslide No Escape from Reality: Ulises by James Joyce

“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” James Joyce, an early twentieth century writer, said these words, and portrayed it often through his works. Often, his greater works discussed the way the mind works through realistic examples; one such example is the novel Ulysses, in which Joyce writes over 900 pages on one day of one man’s life. One specific short story, “Araby”, tells the story of a young boy who comes to an epiphany at the end of his story. Three crucial realizations the narrator comes too at the very end of this story are his curse of poverty, life’s lack of true meaning, and the shear anger and anguish that comes with the sadness of life.

To begin, the narrator discovers the fact that he has been and will be stuck in poverty for the rest of his life. When the young man went to the market to buy an attractive girl he liked a pot, he discovered truly just how simple he has been living his whole childhood. You see the young woman said she could not come with him on his adventure so he said to her that he would bring her something. When he got on the train, he strugg...