Intense, passionate feelings of love really can affect a person to make irrational decisions. Love makes people do crazy things for the one they desire. For example, moving away from home and life just to be with your significant other or giving up one of your values to abide to your lover. This could apply to whom you’ve been with for years or to someone you’ve only met a week ago. Loving that special someone may lead without the satisfaction of receiving their love in return. In the story, “Araby” by James Joyce, which a young boy who goes out of his way to attend a bazaar in hopes to buy something for Mangan's sister. In “A&P” by John Updike, Sammy quits his job expressing solidarity to Queenie. Both short stories portray how love isn’t
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In “A&P” Sammy is still confused on how the opposite gender works by saying, “You never know for sure how girls' minds work (do you really think it's a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar?)...” (Updike 349). This suggest that he doesn’t know how a girl’s mind works and is trying to to comprehend them. This is also a realization on how he is coming of age because he is now only beginning to question understand what the female gender are about. In “Araby” the young boy is unsure about what he is feeling by illustrating how, “Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand” (Joyce 121). This is describing how he can’t understand his feelings and why he is feeling this way which is all new to him. It is also gives a sense coming-of-age because of how her name is making him feel things that he hasn’t ever felt before which is a new …show more content…
In “A&P”, he makes an irrational decision to get Queenie’s attention by, "The girls, and who'd blame them, are in a hurry to get out, so I say "I quit" to Lengel quick enough for them to hear, hoping they'll stop and watch me, their unsuspected hero” (Updike 353). This is showing Sammy quitting his job to show the girls in bathing suits that he respects their right to dress the way they like and still be treated with respect. This can be portrayed to look at the girl's' behavior as a feminist protest as well. By standing up for their right to wear bathing suits in public, they inspire Sammy to do this act. In “Araby”, as the young boy is late to get to the bazaar, it is closed since it says, “I turned away slowly and walked down the middle of the bazaar… I heard a voice call from the end of the gallery that the light was out. The upper part of the hall was now completely dark” ( Joyce 125). The young boy was so excited to buy something for Mangan's sister but it was too late. This shows that he went out of his way to do something for his crush since she could not go. It then makes him feel miserably by how it says, “... my eyes burned with anguish and anger” (Joyce 125). He felt as if he disappointed his loved one because he could not deliver what he proposed. This lead to him think that there would be no hope for him to show her
In “A&P” Sammy is still confused on how the opposite gender works by saying, “You never know for sure how girls' minds work (do you really think it's a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass jar?)...” (Updike 349). This suggest that he doesn’t know how a girl’s mind works and is trying to to comprehend them. This is also a realization on how he is coming of age because he is now only beginning to question understand what the female gender are about. In “Araby” the young boy is unsure about what he is feeling by illustrating how, “Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand” (Joyce 121). This is describing how he can’t understand his feelings and why he is feeling this way which is all new to him. It is also gives a sense coming-of-age because of how her name is making him feel things that he hasn’t ever felt before which is a new …show more content…
In “A&P”, he makes an irrational decision to get Queenie’s attention by, "The girls, and who'd blame them, are in a hurry to get out, so I say "I quit" to Lengel quick enough for them to hear, hoping they'll stop and watch me, their unsuspected hero” (Updike 353). This is showing Sammy quitting his job to show the girls in bathing suits that he respects their right to dress the way they like and still be treated with respect. This can be portrayed to look at the girl's' behavior as a feminist protest as well. By standing up for their right to wear bathing suits in public, they inspire Sammy to do this act. In “Araby”, as the young boy is late to get to the bazaar, it is closed since it says, “I turned away slowly and walked down the middle of the bazaar… I heard a voice call from the end of the gallery that the light was out. The upper part of the hall was now completely dark” ( Joyce 125). The young boy was so excited to buy something for Mangan's sister but it was too late. This shows that he went out of his way to do something for his crush since she could not go. It then makes him feel miserably by how it says, “... my eyes burned with anguish and anger” (Joyce 125). He felt as if he disappointed his loved one because he could not deliver what he proposed. This lead to him think that there would be no hope for him to show her