Comparing A & P And Araby

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John Updike’s A&P and James Joyce’s Araby are two short stories that have different settings and characters, but are also similar in more ways than one. In both stories, Sammy and the narrator face emptiness in their lives. They were feared to face their emotions towards the young women in their lives. Despite this fear, Sammy in John Updike’s short story A&P and the narrator in James Joyce’s short story Araby, were both able to experience the change from boy to man due to the failure of their impractical reality. The main characters in A&P and Araby both teenage boys. In the beginning of these short stories, the main characters, Sammy and the narrator, are depicted as immature and innocent. It is clear that they have similar mindsets when