In James Joyce's "Araby," the narrator uses light and dark imagery to set the tone and mood of the story and also to describe the nature of life on the street on which he lived. Which word from this excerpt indicates the street’s dead-end location and its dullness? THE WORDS THAT ARE IN PARENTHESIS ARE THE ANSWERS TO CHOOSE FROM

North Richmond Street, being (blind), was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An (uninhabited) house of two storeys stood at the blind end, (detached) from its neighbours in a square (ground). The other houses of the street, (conscious) of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with (brown) imperturbable faces.

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In James Joyce's "Araby," the narrator uses light and dark imagery to set the tone and mood of the story and also to describe the nature of life on the street on which he lived. Which word from this excerpt indicates the street’s dead-end location and its dullness? THE WORDS THAT ARE IN PARENTHESIS ARE THE ANSWERS TO CHOOSE FROM

North Richmond Street, being (blind), was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An (uninhabited) house of two storeys stood at the blind end, (detached) from its neighbours in a square (ground). The other houses of the street, (conscious) of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with (brown) imperturbable faces.