How I Met My Husband Literary Analysis

Overtime, as we begin to grow up and become Mature, we realize our mistakes and learned from in coherent ways in order to grow as a person and become more civilized. In Araby and How I Met My Husband , both authors showed how their main characters coming of age and developed over the passage. Each protagonist from both stories go through a child phase to a young juvenile who’s more experienced than at first. However, their path’s adapt in a different order to find themselves. In , Araby the story is told from the outlook of a young boy. Both characters are around the same age and begin to grow curious about dating. In, How I Met My Husband is told in the first person point of view and the protagonist is a girl. Ongoing, each story explains and shows us the growth of the juvenile in a mature way in both a male and female.

In James Joyce’s Araby, the young boy in the story likes a girl from his neighborhood and he begins to show signs of maturing by getting involved in adolescent activities.The author explains to us how the protagonist coming of age by , “Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I …show more content…
Peebles’ closet often, after she would finish the jobs she was assigned with. This demonstrates to us that she’s still a young girl and is starting to be intrigued in older women’s clothes. Browsing through Mrs. Peebles’ wardrobe, she sees a dress and couldn’t contain herself . Edie mentioned, “I got out of my own things and slipped it on. I was slimmer at fifteen than anybody would believe who knows me now and the fit was beautiful….One thing led to another. I put on rouge and lipstick and eyebrow pencil from her dresser.” The author is telling us that Edie is beginning to explore wishes to dress more like a young lady or mature than how she