Read the sentence from "araby." 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. which choice describes how james joyce transformed his source—the biblical story of the garden of eden—for the purpose of a modern short story? question 2 options: the author contrasts the biblical garden of innocence with a modern garden of neglect and decay. in eden, adam and eve disobey god's command; in the story, joyce portrays a modern boy's disobedience. in the biblical story, god is ever present, but in the modern garden, joyce portrays an absence of religion. adam and eve were cast out of eden. likewise, the boy has been cast out of his home because of his quest.