As humans grow they pass through various stages of development, often some stages are never reached, when a new stage is successfully reached the person has under gone some sort of realization. James Joyce's short story "Araby" is in simple terms about initation, it is a story is about a young boy's adventure that allows him to progress from one stage to the next with the realization of his narcissistic behavior.
At first the boy is innocent, unaware of himself and the world around him. The first few paragraphs reflect this innocence. The street on which the boy lives is "blind" and "quiet", much like the boy. The boy is blind to the fact of life, he doesn't understand that his actions are in vain. The house at the end of the street, probably an analogy of the boy is "detached" and "uninhabited". The house at the end of the street symbolizes the boys total detachment from the real world. …
