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Yes, A & P is the contemporary reworking of Araby. They both are the short stories written by two famous authors at different times and in different places. Despite different countries and times, A & P and Araby have so much in common. Similarities can be clearly seen in the context and settings of story. Both tales portrays the darkness and gloominess of the cities. Sammy, like the narrator of Araby, in A&P describes his town in by referring to every people around him as sheep. He vividly describes the distinction between his town and beach. In both short stories, young men live dull lives, trying to get away from the reality, go through a major transition by the end of story. This transition occurs while trying to please a girl …show more content…
If the story had not happened in a grocery store of a beach town with the doubtful hero, Sammy, who is clerk in the grocery store, the story could not have occurred. Without this setting the insufficient clothed girls could not have come in and strolled down the walkway causing the hero and the other clerks to drool over them while they discussed their food purchases. Furthermore, the teenage hero could not have been misleaded from his work with thoughts of gallantry. In addition to this, the manager could not have had chance to admonish the girls for their clothes and request to leave the shop. Moreover, if the manager had not done this, there would have been no occasion for our slightly doubtful hero to accomplish his untamed dreaming and resigning his job to become a hero of the girls who left leaving him in the cold unconsciousness in a bleak parking area. The setting is the backbone of poignant story of a pathetically hallucinated …show more content…
The main character is also a young man who belongs to working-class. By contrast, Queenie, the name he gives to the leader of girls wearing the bathing-suits, is a rich girl. She, after a hard day frisking at the beach and lolling by the pool, comes into the grocery store to buy the cocktail snacks for her mom. At least, that is how Sammy perceives her. Lengel is the manager and is somewhere in between all this stuff. Though he clearly earns more than the Sammy but he also has more responsibility and probably still struggles to cope. Sammy perceives the rest of the people in the store as "sheep". Because he thinks that they all act, dress, think and talk alike. This story is driven by the motions among these various socioeconomic
Yes, A & P is the contemporary reworking of Araby. They both are the short stories written by two famous authors at different times and in different places. Despite different countries and times, A & P and Araby have so much in common. Similarities can be clearly seen in the context and settings of story. Both tales portrays the darkness and gloominess of the cities. Sammy, like the narrator of Araby, in A&P describes his town in by referring to every people around him as sheep. He vividly describes the distinction between his town and beach. In both short stories, young men live dull lives, trying to get away from the reality, go through a major transition by the end of story. This transition occurs while trying to please a girl …show more content…
If the story had not happened in a grocery store of a beach town with the doubtful hero, Sammy, who is clerk in the grocery store, the story could not have occurred. Without this setting the insufficient clothed girls could not have come in and strolled down the walkway causing the hero and the other clerks to drool over them while they discussed their food purchases. Furthermore, the teenage hero could not have been misleaded from his work with thoughts of gallantry. In addition to this, the manager could not have had chance to admonish the girls for their clothes and request to leave the shop. Moreover, if the manager had not done this, there would have been no occasion for our slightly doubtful hero to accomplish his untamed dreaming and resigning his job to become a hero of the girls who left leaving him in the cold unconsciousness in a bleak parking area. The setting is the backbone of poignant story of a pathetically hallucinated …show more content…
The main character is also a young man who belongs to working-class. By contrast, Queenie, the name he gives to the leader of girls wearing the bathing-suits, is a rich girl. She, after a hard day frisking at the beach and lolling by the pool, comes into the grocery store to buy the cocktail snacks for her mom. At least, that is how Sammy perceives her. Lengel is the manager and is somewhere in between all this stuff. Though he clearly earns more than the Sammy but he also has more responsibility and probably still struggles to cope. Sammy perceives the rest of the people in the store as "sheep". Because he thinks that they all act, dress, think and talk alike. This story is driven by the motions among these various socioeconomic