James Joyce uses religious references throughout Araby to express his
resentment towards the Catholic Church, and Catholicism as a whole. The
story revolves around religious symbolism and a boy's intnse desire for a girl.
Joyce's reasons for rejecting the Catholic Church are unknown, but in many
scenes his attitude towards religious hypocrisy becomes clearer.
The introduction to Araby sets the religious tones, which flow through a
neighborhood, dark and full of desire. The story opens on "a quiet street,
except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free".
The example given is a reflection of long days oppressed by the church, which only come to and end when the boys are set free.
In the story there is a room where a previous tenant, a priest, died. Joyce's resentment toward religious literature is shown in the passage, "the waste room... was littered with old useless papers. In writing the "waste" room and referring to the......

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Title: The Religious Undertones In James Joyce's Araby
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