What exactly is the epiphany in "Araby"?

In Joycean terms, an epiphany is a moment when the essence of a character is revealed, when allthe forces that bear on his life converge, and we can, in that instant, understand. Araby follows this pattern. The meaning is revealed in a young boy’s psychicjourney from first love to despair and disappointment, and the theme is found in the boy’s discovery of thediscrepancy between the real and the ideal in life.The story opens with a description of North Richmond Street, a blind,cold ... silent street where thehouses  It is a street of fixed, decaying conformity andfalse piety. The boy’s house contains the same sense of a dead present and a lost past. The former tenant, apriest, died in the back room of the house, and his legacy — several old yellowed books, which the boy enjoysleafing through because they are old,