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 …showed first 75 words of 860 total…

…showed last 75 words of 860 total…The boy's narcissism was in trying to make his fantasy a reality, treating a simple gift as if it was the window of opportunity. When the boy became aware of how vain this method was, he awoke to the reality that it cannot be so simple, and that in the real world things don't work out, bazaars close and the universe doesn't wait. With this realization he gained self-awareness, the initiation to a new step.