How is the boy in James Joyce's short story "Araby" characterized?

The boy in s
short story is characterized in a number of different ways, including the
following:

• He grows up in relatively poor and unpromising
  circumstances, but he does not seem especially bitter, angry, or self-pitying about those
  circumstances themselves. Whatever harsh judgments he makes are judgments he usually directs at
  himself.
• He seems as imaginative as an adult as he was as a boy, as when he
  usesto describe how the

other houses of the
street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable
faces.

• He seems unconventional, as when he
  notes that he liked a particular book because its pages were yellow.  Another kind of boy might
  have had entirely different, and entirely predictable, kinds of reasons for liking a particular
  book.
• He seems capable of appreciating ethical behavior, as in his praise
  of the very charitable priest.
• He is observant, as when he notes
  that

The space of sky above us was
the...

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