Answer:
The phrase that best explains how Joyce uses the passage from Genesis in “Araby” is to symbolize the main character’s growth
Explanation:
“Araby” by James Joyce is a story of a young boy, this story has a lot of religious references, in this specific excerpt the apple-tree and a few straggling bushes represent the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil this tress had the answer for everything and represented the growth of the soul. Then in the book, it represents the growth of a character.
This is true. Metaphors usually have referencing meaning and not a direct literal one. This direct literal meaning is called the denotative meaning, which is opposite to the connotative meaning.
