The novelist hadn't named most of his characters because he wants to demonstrate this events may happen in every part of the world and especially in many places in Dublin.

Mangan's sister has a secluded life: she spend a lot of time in her convent and she can't go everywhere she wants. Even her use of the Irish expression "It's well for you" underlines her envy for people who have more freedom than her.

The boy isn't at ease in the bazaar, he feels on himself the mockery of other people: he was too rash in promising Mangan's sister he would have brought to her a souvenir from the bazaar; now he is in it he is conscious of his childhood and he has to pretend with other people to be older and surer, in order to hold his dignity

SETTINGS ADJECTIVES

North Richmond Street    Blind, quiet, decent, brown, sombre, cold

The narrator's house Cold

The building that houses "Araby" Confusing, large, dark

The overall atmosphere created by the settings of the story is one of  despondency, dejection, oppression, alienation and frivolity.

 The story is called "Araby" because the bazaar is the mean setting of the story; it is the link between the boy and the girl but ,at the same time, it is the element that forbids the realization of his expectations. In addition it represents Dublin because in the bazaar there is a sort of stagnant atmosphere that recalled to the typical paralysis of the city. This quotation introduces a religious theme that links "Araby" to "The Sisters" because in both of them, the chalice is the symbol of purity. It something to protect from the others because it is sacred.

SIGHT: feeble lanterns; Some distant lamp or lighted window; The light from the lamp opposite our door

EYES: my eyes burned with anguish and anger;

BLINDNESS:  dusk fell; it was a dark raining evening; the greater part of the hall was in darkness; Gazing up into the darkness;  the upper part of the hall was now completely dark.

The light is uses to describe girl's beauty comparing her to an angel. Besides the light is associated with hope in contrast to blindness that tell to the reader the boy's inability to see the reality expressing frustration

The central theme of this story is probably that people in Dublin can't understand their feelings because of the society of that period. The reference to the church are not so frequent but also the religion represents an institution that makes the Dubliners full of fear. The themes of the paralysis is the main one.