Araby is transformed into another crush for the boy. It recalls the earlier passage, “her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers”. The romantic is idealized through religious process.

According to Steven Doloff, the word Araby plays the same role in John Milton’s Paradise Lost as it does in this specific line of Joyce’s short story: it creates a sense of arousal when perfection is acknowledged.

Milton uses Araby (or Arabie) to emphasize the sensual arousal of Satan creating paradise on earth (“Odours from the spicie shoare/Of ARABIE the blest”)

In the same way, Joyce shows how the syllables of the word Araby arouses the narrator. Satan’s paradise on earth, which is like Eden, is what the syllables of the Araby Bazaar are to the Narrator because it, too, represents an arousal of the narrator’s ideals. Araby evokes this idea of Eden earlier in the story when the narrator describes the back garden, “The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree.”

Steven Doloff, “Aspects of Milton’s Paradise Lost in James Joyce’s "Araby”.“ James Joyce Quarterly. Tulsa: University of Tulsa, 1993. 113-115..

The target of the boy’s romantic interest is revealed here to be part of a convent: an image of purity that directly contrasts with the Araby bazaar. She is pure, sweet, characterized by the way her all white shape captures the light – part of her own world. The Araby bazaar is the opposite: bustling, filled with a variety of people and motives.

Here, it is almost as if the boy tries to bridge the two worlds – his idealism (captured by the image of the girl) with the real, disillusioning world around him.

Joyce’s language equates the boy’s first crush with his idealist view of the priest. The mention of the boy’s “chalice” brings to mind the use of chalices in Catholic ceremonies like communion – just like a religious sentiment, his romantic sentiment is “bore… safely” despite the disillusioning sites that surround him.

The target of the boy’s affections almost becomes a deity herself – her names coming to his “lips at moment in strange prayers and praise which I myself did not understand” as if she were the Holy Spirit and he, its host.

Mangan’s Sister—the character’s sister—is an allusion to a character in one of Joyce’s favorite poems, James Clarence Mangan’s “Dark Rosaleen” (Stone). In “Dark Rosaleen”, the narrator describes her as “[the] lightning in my blood” (Mangan); in Araby, Joyce describes Mangan’s sister as a “summons to all my foolish blood.” The narrators in Dark Rosaleen and Araby idolize the female characters. In Dark Rosaleen, the narrator explains how his soul is consumed when he thinks about her, “The very soul within my breast/Is wasted for you, love!” In Araby, however, he thinks about her and praises her at random times in which he cannot comprehend.

Harry Stone, “Araby” and the Writings of James Joyce.“ The Antioch Review (2013): 348-380. Online Document.

Tarantella is a rapidly-paced folk dance traditionally played at weddings, originating in Southern Italy.

As myth goes, the tarantella dance was performed by someone who’s been bitten by a tarantula in order to keep from succumbing to the venom – if a townsperson was bitten, music would be played and the bitten person would dance non-stop until “healed”, hence the frantic nature of the dance.

The visceral combination of celebration (dance) and near-death (fighting poison) as captured in the tarantella dance connects to the contrast struck in the opening scene as a whole: the bright and joyful celebration (the wedding) and the dark, violent tones of the Don’s study (Bonasera pleading the Don to enact revenge).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFC8QX2xCU4

A theme to both this speech and his presidency, “balance” constituted a huge part of Eisenhower’s ideology. As the Soviet Union creeped closer towards nuclear armament, Eisenhower was under tremendous pressure to return the threat with greater defense spending and a more aggressive approach. But Eisenhower maintained balance, stating:

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

He continued on to balance the budget three times during his presidency, not wavering against pressure to up military spending – a record unmatched during the Cold War. However, that’s not to say Eisenhower didn’t spend money – money was spent, smartly, to maximize American power in the Near East which was his own administration’s major foreign policy focus and a major US goal since the end of WW2. Despite Eisenhower’s efforts, his attempts at balance tilted into the hands of the sort of interests that would birth the military industrial complex.