A&P/Araby Comparison

Christopher Nguyen Dr. Pedersen, 1130-1230 Araby and A&P Araby, written by James Joyce 1914 was slightly a four-year-old boy on a quest to woo e actuallywhere the girl of his adolescent dreams. A&P, written by John Updike in a completely divergent time period, was a story closely a new-fashi stard storage clerk trying to make a motion three teenagers by def finish uping them from his manager. both story lines be different, as wellspring as the time periods and morals, exactly somehow and in some way, they share many similarities.Between the deuce stories, you could find a mass of examples of how they are similar, but one of the to a greater extent than distinct ones is the fact that both stories are told from a first person topographic evince of view. In our first story Araby, it is told from the young boys arcdegree of view. Although nonentity is said much abtaboo the unretentive boy himself, we can tell from his point of view that he has a very big crush on his mates older sister. We also essay from his point of view that he lives with an thankless uncle and a concerning aunt. From our other story A&P we go into the vivification of Sammy.In his point of view, we find out that Sammy is a store clerk for a small-town A&P store down in Georgia. He obviously isnt excited about his rent out, but when three teenage girls habiliment naught but bikinis on a random hot summer day, he takes notice. In the end, when his manager comes out and ridicules the girls for approaching into the store looking indecent, Sammy decides to quit his job in order to defend the ladies idea that they would commend him for his efforts. Sadly his actions go unnoticed and thats when we all realize that life from thither on will be harder for him.Theres another element in these two stories that share similar traits. Its the conflict between the main flake and the antagonist. In Araby, its the little electric razor falls for the pretty girl, only to be stopped b y the antagonist, this case his inebriated and broke uncle. A&P is a bit similar and it starts out with Sammy falling for Queenie and eventually Lengel, the store manager, is his opposition. Neither characters end up with what they truly fateed in the beginning, but it makes them realize that this is only the beginning.There is one special similarity between these two stories is so great that the authors hid well in the text was the vast resourcefulness. In Araby, there was a vast amount of imagery and a lot of it referred back to the give-and-take such as when he talks about Mangans sisters holding her spikes, how her brothers were fighting over a cap, and how her hair fell over on side of her dress. In A&P, it referred to how Queenie was in some way a mermaid because of her long, tweed prima-donna lets and how she came down heavy on her heals.Sammy was in a way, mesmerized like Oedipus had been when they transit paths with the sirens. Although A&P and Araby have different story lines and plots, what they do have in common are hidden messages and dilemmas. both(prenominal) main characters took the road of chivalry and romance, but obviously it didnt work out for them. However it did make them realize that nothing in life is going to be so easy, and in order to strain their goals, they would have to go through more experiences in order to get what they want later in life.