Both the boy in the poem and the boy in Araby suffer from separation anxiety. They both cannot accept the fact that reality has struck their "world". It is a realization that sometimes things don't go just as how you thought it would be, and it's a struggle to keep up with the truth.
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Perhaps the poet uses a similar storyline with the purpose of conveying a different theme than the reader may have heard before.
I may be a little late, but the answers are A and D.
C, because “totally rad dude”
