Essay On Coming Of Age Literature

In literature you have probably heard of a genre of Coming of Age Stories, where it's a story that centers on the protagonist's growth, most times youth into adulthood. In these types of stories the author likes to dramatize to enhance the story and its moral. One common thing that they do is to dramatize the moment when the teenager has to make that important decision that often lingers into adulthood. We see this happen in “The Bass, The river and Sheila Mant”, “A & P “, and “The Grave”

The story “The Bass, The river, and Sheila Mant” by W.D Wetherell we have the main character that is blinded by love will do whatever to “appeal” ; in the second page it says “but she was never watching, and the miraculous day she was I immediately climbed the diving board … continued until she left and the sun went down” so once he has a chance to take her out on a date he will do anything to make his first impression great. So as when he took her on his boat down the river and made the hasty decision of cutting his line caused him to later think about that in adulthood. …show more content…
He notices the three girls that walk in wearing nothing but their bathing suit. Once they go check out his manager starts to get angry at the fact they aren't wearing appropriate attire. So he : “I said I quit… you don't have to embarrass them” he takes a stand, makes this decision that will either make him or break him in the future. So Then toward the end he thinks back “I look around for my girl, but they’re gone , of course … my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be hereafter.” , that decision he had to make was a tough one, furthermore we can infer that decision affected him in the future and it was one he regretted and wasn't really worth it in the end. This is a common theme we noticed in the past two coming of age stories, but the next takes a different