The first-person narrator in James Joyce’s “Araby” gives the reader a feeling of reading the boy’s journal or his telling of events. The readers get the insight into the boy’s mind; though he could only be sharing the knowledge he chooses to share. The possibility of an unreliable narrator in turn leaves a vagueness or obscurity in the details given in the text. As the boy tells the audience of his infatuation and covets with this nameless Mangan’s sister, he parallels her appearance to holiness. For instance in the quote about “The light from the lamp...” that radiates a glow around her figure. This illumination is a common symbolism seen in religious paintings. Mangan’s sister overall is being paralleled to an ethereal being. The ambiguity