Make a chart to record your thoughts about what the boy finds out about himself and the world in "Araby."To identify the theme of a story, it is...

This question is one that requires the initiative of the
student.  But, to assist you in your endeavor, here are a few things to consider.  You
may wish to draw a a pyramid of plot as created by Gustav Freytag, a German dramatist
and novelist.  As you probably know, the base of this pyramid is the
exposition, in which the setting and character are
introduced.  Then, the rising action is the line upward to
the apex of the pyramid.  At the apex is the climax, the
point of emotional intensity--for Joyce's character it is the epiphany. On the line from
the apex back to the base is the falling action and then the point of connection of the
base line and the side of the pyramid is the denouement, or
resolution of the
plot. 

Setting up this diagram, you can peruse the story
and plug in the actions that are appropriate to each point.  For instance, in the
exposition and the rising action, as well, the boy is completely infatuated with
Mangan's sister.  Every morning he lies on the floor of his parlour watching her door,
and "her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."  Her image joins him, he
narrates.  

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...my body was like a harp [symbol of Ireland, by
the way], and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the
wires. 

There is even some
foreshadowing in the boy's mention of his "innumerable follies [that] laid waste my
waking and sleeping thoughts."   Later, as he carries groceries through the crowd for
his mother, the boy idealizes Mangan's sister as the fair maiden for whom, he, the
knight, seeks the holy grail (Rising action). With the boy as the narrator, his
thoughts, speech, and actions are what reveal his character to you, the reader. By
charting the plot, you can place these actions or thoughts into the appropriate place so
that your discussion of his realizations will be in order.  Good
luck!