"Gazing up into the darkness, I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."- Araby by James Joyce.
in the above sentence, "anguish" can be replaced by torment, as they have almost the same meaning. Anguish is the pain and hurt that someone experiences either bodily or emotionally. Likewise, "torment" also have the same meaning- that it is either emotional hurt or physical pain.
The given passage describes the pain or hurt that the narrator experienced in finding out that the market from which he was planning on buying a gift from Araby for the woman she loves, turned out to be just a warehouse of cheap goods and nothing worthy of a gift.
