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The narrator’s aunt
The older sister of the narrator’s friend, Mangan. The narrator has a powerful crush on her. She routinely interrupts the boys playing in the street when she comes outside to call her brother in for tea. She belongs to a convent and takes interest in the Araby bazaar, which is what sparks the narrator’s interest in it. There is no indication that she is aware of the narrator’s infatuation with her.
Mangan’s Sister Quotes in Araby
The Araby quotes below are all either spoken by Mangan’s Sister or refer to Mangan’s Sister. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance. … We walked through the flaring streets, jostled by drunken men and bargaining women, amid the curses of labourers, the shrill litanies of shop-boys who stood on guard by the barrels of pigs’ cheeks, the nasal chanting of street-singers, who sang a come-all-you about O’Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles in our native land.
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These noises converged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand.
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The light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there and, falling, lit up the hand upon the railing. It fell over one side of her dress and caught the white border of a petticoat, just visible as she stood at ease.
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From the front window I saw my companions playing below in the street. Their cries reached me weakened and indistinct and, leaning my forehead against the cool glass, I looked over at the dark house where she lived.
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Mangan’s Sister Character Timeline in Araby
The timeline below shows where the character Mangan’s Sister appears in Araby. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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Every night Mangan’s sister comes outside to call him inside for tea. Mangan, one of the narrator’s friends, usually...
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The narrator begins to fantasize about Mangan’s sister constantly—even as he walks through the noisy, dirty Dublin market with his aunt, passing street-singers...
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When Mangan’s sister finally speaks to the narrator, it is to ask if he is planning to go...
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The narrator now begins to fantasize not only about Mangan’s sister , but about the Araby bazaar as well. He is fascinated with the exotic Eastern...
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...upstairs window he sees his friends playing in the street and then looks over at Mangan’s sister ’s house, seeing her “brown-clad figure” in his mind.
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