Why Does The Boy Fail In His Love? In The Story "Araby"�

In the story "Araby" the small boy fails in love due to many reasons but one and the most important from them is the fact that he has no resources to satisfy his love. James Joyce written this story it is an attack on the materialistic approach of the modern.
The small boy has the passion to buy something for his love and he struggled very hard to go to the splendid bazaar Araby but as soon as he reached there he found only darkness in the bazaar because he became so late.

Though some shops were still open when the small boy reached there but he can't afford to buy something for his love. And this thing disappointed the small boy to a great extent. He approaches a stall and watch for something and sales girls asked him if he would like to buy something but he replied in negative because he could not buy anything from that. It is because he was suffering from lack of resources.

And thus due to these reasons the small boy fails in his love. And this is also the end of the story. Besides the wonderful story the Araby is it also shows the difference between the ideal and the real.  So above mentioned are the reasons of the failure of boy in his love.