A & P And Araby Compare And Contrast

Have you ever done something stupid, without rationalizing the consequences, and just doing something to impress someone you like. In the story Araby you have the narrator James Joyce reminiscing his childhood in Dublin Ireland. Joyce the narrator is telling a story how he went to the a bizarre , to buy a gift for Manglan's Sister the girl he liked. In the A&P a story by John Updike, you have a fictional character trying to impress a girl he nicknamed quennie. He tries to impress her by quitting his job when she is thrown out of there. Both characters in Araby and A&P are very similar and different. One similarity between both character is that beauty from the girls they liked both push them to do something to impress them.One difference is