Comparing 'Sucker' And Eudora Welty's A Memory

Both Carson McCuller’s “Sucker” and Eudora Welty’s “A Memory” examine the dream and reality of human relationship. Both authors use adult personas, who is looking back and reminiscing on their childhood, which is to know between dream and reality. Whereas McCuller reveals that dream in conflict with reality will destroy all relationships, Welty shows that dream and reality will ultimately bring a person's view of the world into darkness.
Both stories is a frame memory that looks back to the childhood and reflects on it, and they are both written in the firs-person point of view. Both persona’s are in their teenage years and they both have an admiration for someone of the opposite sex. This could be seen as being blinded by love, but whats actually happening is that they are still young and they are in their dream world. Pete …show more content…
The protagonist in this story fantasizes his relationship with Maybelle Watts a senior at school but she does not notice him at all. He keeps on trying until one day she finally notices him and his fantasy’s came true. This was too good to be true because after a while Maybelle starts going off with another guy. Petes relationship with Maybelle is just a dream but his relationship with Sucker was reality and he realizes that but it is too late. Maybelle going off with another guy made him realize that their relationship was not real and that really hurt him, “I can’t divide time up and say this happened….The more ashamed I felt for making a fool of myself the more I ran after her.” This realization made him ignore and hurt the people that he loves, and most of all it ruined his relationship with Sucker, “But most of the time Sucker stays by himself….sometimes this look in his eyes makes me believe that if Sucker could he would kill me.” Petes dream collides with reality and destroys everything he has with Sucker and changes the way he sees the