Joyce uses a description of the setting to show the narrator's disappointment. Throughout Arabia, the narrator expresses his hatred for the life he lives in Dublin. Reading the description you get the feeling that the community is limited or private. “North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street. An uninhabited two-story house stood at the dead end, detached from its neighbors on a square lot” (Joyce 358). Constantly surrounded by the receptivity of his entire neighborhood, the narrator wants the excitement or novelty he thinks he will get from Arabia Bazar and perhaps even from his friend's sister. He feels discouraged and alienated from his community, but overall he is disappointed or disappointed in himself. All his excitement comes from Mangan's sister about the bazaar. Arriving late, the narrator is disappointed by what he sees. “Almost all the stalls were closed and most of the hall was in darkness. I recognized a silence like that which pervades a church after the service” (Joyce 361). The boy's happiness he received right from th...