Chapter 22 - Literature

For this Chapter, "He's Blind for a Reason You Know" I used the short story "Araby" by James Joyce to draw parallels and refer to. In this Chapter Foster discusses blindness. Psychological, moral, blindness, theses all somewhat refer to lack of common sense and lack of the ability to understand a major part of life. Although being blind in the ares of reality, love and truth, are more on the topic of the short story I read. "Araby" by James Joyce. In this story, the main character, who is unnamed, is in "love" with his friend Mangan's sister. He is completely wrapped up in this girl, just the tough of speaking to her makes him dizzy. At one point in the novel he ends up going to a bazaar to get her something as she had asked, because of already making plans with her school. He is put behind because of his dad being late to take him to the train. As soon as he arrives the bazaar is closing down and the shop he stopped at right before it closed seemed incontinent with his presence. This character was blinded by love, he simply stops and gives up as soon as he cant fulfill her very wish, instead of getting back up and thinking of a way to make it up to her. Love had him so wrapped up that he couldn't even use his reasoning skills to figure his problem out, thus to say he was blinded by love.