“A man's mistakes are his portals of discovery.” James Joyce, an early twentieth century writer, said these words, and often portrayed them throughout his works. Often, his major works discussed the way the mind works through realistic examples; one such example is the novel Ulysses, in which Joyce writes over 900 pages in one day in the life of a man. One specific tale, “Araby,” tells the story of a boy who comes to an epiphany at the end of his story. Three crucial realizations that the narrator also comes to at the end of this story are his curse of poverty, the lack of true meaning in life, and the sheer anger and anguish that comes from the sadness of life. he has been and will be stuck in poverty for the rest of his life. When the young man went to the market to buy a pot for a beautiful girl he liked, he truly discovered how simply he had lived his entire childhood. You see, the young woman said she couldn't accompany him on his adventure, so he told her he would bring her something. When he got on the train, he struggled...