Love Is Blind

Throughout the majority of Araby, the narrator is ignorant of his stagnant neighborhood and bitter home. He's too infatuated or twitterpated with Mangan's sister to notice anything else. For the narrator, Mangan's sister is a light, as he constantly describes her figure being defined by some light source, that blinds him from seeing the darkness of reality. It is a gloomy epiphany that strikes the narrator during his mission to travel to the bazaar to acquire a gift for his love. His first taste of reality is with his uncle. Too self-centered and drunken, his uncle forgot his nephew was waiting for him to come home from work to go to the bazaar. The epiphany hits the narrator full on at the bazaar. A young lady speaks to him "out of a sense of duty" in which the narrator finally observes reality. Walking through the darkened hall he realizes his fantasies and dreams of Mangan's sister are childish. He saw himself as "a creature driven and derided by vanity" only further proving he is seeing the world at a more mature level.

It reminds me of the song "Change Your Mind" by the Killers.

Racey days
Help me through the hopeless haze
But my oh my
Tragic eyes
I can't even recognize myself behind
So if the answer is no
Can I change your mind

Out again, a siren screams at half past ten
And you won't let go
While I ignore, that we both felt like this
Before it starts to show
So if I had a chance
Would you let me know

Why aren't you shaking
Step back in time
Graciously taking
Oh your too kind

And if the answer is no
Can I change your mind

We're all the same
And love is blind
The sun is gone
Before it shines

And I said if the answer is no
Can I change your mind

Although the context is slightly different it is another example of how love is blinding.