How we cite our quotes: (Story.Paragraph)
Quote #7
I did not know […] how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. (Araby.5)
Confused adoration? Really? That's the best you can do buddy? He gets a bit more romantic in the next line, with that simile about the harp, but it's the confusion here that really jumps out to Shmoop. We'd write it off as due to the fact that the narrator of "Araby" is so young, but love for the older folks seems just as confusing. Maybe "confused adoration" is really all you can hope for when you're a denizen of Dublin.