B- Dreams often end in
disillusionment.
The teen-aged narrator, influenced by the
Romantic novel The Abbot by Walter Scott as well as his own
youthful infatuation and confusion of his Catholic idealism with romance, perceives his
friend's sister as a the fair maiden for whom he pursues a "holy grail." When, for
instance, he carries the groceries for his mother, he imagines himself bearing his
"chalice through a throng of foes," intermingling his religious fervor with his romantic
imaginings. With the aura of the exotic, the bazaar promises to be the ideal rendez-vous
for narrator with Mangan's sister.
However, when he arrives
at the bazaar at is closing, the narrator finds only common people engaged in mere trite
conversation, the young man has an epiphany in which he realistically perceives the
bazaar as nothing but a commercial spot to purchase things, and his idealization of
Mangan's sister as mere dream:
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a
creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and
anger.
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