Question

Select the correct text in the passage.
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?

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 neighbors in a square [ground]. The other houses of the street, [conscious] of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with [brown] imperturbable faces.

Answer 1

The answer is detached.

Detached means something not connected to any other structure or building, separated from the rest or isolated. In streets dead-end, at the very end of it, it's common to find some type of detached building, like a house; and such isolation don't tend to bring anything interesting or exciting to people around it, but dullness.