"Araby"

Upon first read, I didn't really get this story. I still don't fully understand the point of it, but I can at least appreciate the language. Some passages I really liked "Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms..." The last passage I thought was very poetic. "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." His need to go to this bazaar is rather unclear to me. I understand infatuation but the object of said infatuation is hard to identify with.