Despite living in different time periods, John Updike 's "A&P" and James Joyce 's "Araby" share similar literary devices within the stories. Visual imagery and point of view are shared between both texts to describes characters mentally and psychically. While point of view is used to characterize the boy in each story, visual imagery is employed to describe the main girl. In Araby, these devices are used to exhibit the girl 's physical appearance and the boy 's mentality. Visual imagery and point of view are used in Araby to describe Mangan 's sister and the boy. Being the narrarator, the young boy describes Mangan 's sister extensively, despite their lack of interaction. Upon one encounter, however, the narrarator details her appearance
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Imagery is used to characterize the girl- specifically being her physical appearance. As the girls walk through the aisles, he directs his attention to one of them, which the author describes as, “…there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except her, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal in the light.” (Updike 178). By using the metaphor of comparing her chest to a dented sheet of metal, Updike utilizes imagery to characterize the girl. Also, describing her chest as a clean bare plane is also a metaphor, which gives a better physical description as opposed to no metaphor. Concerning the boy, however, the author uses point of view to characterize him, as he writes, “His face was dark gray and his back stiff, as if he’d just had an injection of iron, and my stomach kind of fell as I fell how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.” (Updike 182). The first person perspective of Sammy displays his thoughts, and therefore mental characterization. By comparing his stiff body to containing an injection of iron, the author again uses a metaphor to describe a character. As a result, a sense of fear is exemplified due to his now unemployment. Also, though the beginnning of the quote describes him in third person, the second part goes to first person, indicating a free indirect discourse point of view not present in …show more content…
For instance, each narrarator in the story is characterized as a young boy who is particularly interested with the main girl for the action of the story. Despite this, point of view is used to describe his vanity and therefore anger from his perspective in Araby. Likewise, in A&P, there is a first person point of view where Sammy describes his fear as being injected with lead. Therefore, both of these stories utilize the first person perspective to mentally characterize the boy. Also, the imagery used by the narrator to describe their love interests in both stories is rather similar. For example, in Araby, imagery is the result of the reflection of light on Mangan 's sister 's body, which is noticed by the boys and subsequently represented by Joyce using imagery to produce a vivid picture. Similarly in A&P, the author uses two metaphors when depicting her chest, which in turn allows for imagery because of the detail contained within the metaphors. As such, the boy is described by his personality by utilizing the first person point of view in both stories, while the girl is characterized by her physical appearance with the use of
Imagery is used to characterize the girl- specifically being her physical appearance. As the girls walk through the aisles, he directs his attention to one of them, which the author describes as, “…there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except her, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal in the light.” (Updike 178). By using the metaphor of comparing her chest to a dented sheet of metal, Updike utilizes imagery to characterize the girl. Also, describing her chest as a clean bare plane is also a metaphor, which gives a better physical description as opposed to no metaphor. Concerning the boy, however, the author uses point of view to characterize him, as he writes, “His face was dark gray and his back stiff, as if he’d just had an injection of iron, and my stomach kind of fell as I fell how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.” (Updike 182). The first person perspective of Sammy displays his thoughts, and therefore mental characterization. By comparing his stiff body to containing an injection of iron, the author again uses a metaphor to describe a character. As a result, a sense of fear is exemplified due to his now unemployment. Also, though the beginnning of the quote describes him in third person, the second part goes to first person, indicating a free indirect discourse point of view not present in …show more content…
For instance, each narrarator in the story is characterized as a young boy who is particularly interested with the main girl for the action of the story. Despite this, point of view is used to describe his vanity and therefore anger from his perspective in Araby. Likewise, in A&P, there is a first person point of view where Sammy describes his fear as being injected with lead. Therefore, both of these stories utilize the first person perspective to mentally characterize the boy. Also, the imagery used by the narrator to describe their love interests in both stories is rather similar. For example, in Araby, imagery is the result of the reflection of light on Mangan 's sister 's body, which is noticed by the boys and subsequently represented by Joyce using imagery to produce a vivid picture. Similarly in A&P, the author uses two metaphors when depicting her chest, which in turn allows for imagery because of the detail contained within the metaphors. As such, the boy is described by his personality by utilizing the first person point of view in both stories, while the girl is characterized by her physical appearance with the use of