Araby
by James Joyce
The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: _The Abbot_, by Walter Scott, _The Devout Communicant_ and _The Memoirs of Vidocq_. I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which I found the late tenant’s rusty bicycle-pump. He had been a very charitable priest; in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.
"Araby" by James Joyce
Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which word from the passage has a positive connotation?
(1 point)
Responses
charitable
charitable
former
former
useless
useless
littered