When the narrator eventually makes it to the Araby bazaar, he notices that half the lights are out in the gallery. He listens to the English girl flirting with the men at her booth; he hears one of them accuse another of lying. Again, he remarks on the "dark entrance to the stall." Finally, the narrator wanders away from her stall, and he finds that the main part of the hall is totally dark now. Looking up into the pitch black, he says, "I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." In this way, then, sinfulness does seem to be tied to darkness. Vanity is a sin, and the narrator realizes that his hopes that the world would somehow make way for his feelings for Mangan's sister were, indeed, vain. He seems, in this moment, to lose his innocence, a state of maturity also associated with sinfulness, and because he's standing in the darkened hall, the darkness is ultimately tied to this loss.
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