Araby By James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, And Frank O Connor

James Joyce, William C Williams, Jamaica Kincaid, and Frank O’Connor are the four authors of the short stories I read. James Joyce wrote “Araby”, which is a story about a little boy who has a crush on his friend’s older sister and he figures out that she has manipulated him. William C. Williams wrote “The Use of Force”, which was about a doctor who paid a visit to a younger girl who was sick and he has to battle her in order to find out what’s wrong with her. Jamaica Kincaid is the author of “Girl”, which was told from the perspective of a mother who was giving her daughter advice. Last, but not least, Frank O’Connor wrote “The Drunkard” which was about a little boy who saved his father from getting drunk at a funeral and was in a sense his
He shows up to the house and has no idea what is wrong with the girl or what has caused her to become sick. Plot twist though because the doctor isn’t the only person in the shadow in this story. The parents are also dealing with shadow because they have no idea what’s going on with the daughter at all. When the doctor shows up and asks if the daughter has a sore throat, both of the parents say “No...No, she says her throat doesn’t hurt.”(Williams 502). The doctor then proceeds to take a look at the little girl’s mouth, but she puts up a fight. After using some force to get the girl to finally open her mouth, he comes to light because it turns out the girl had been lying about her throat hurting. The parents of the girl in the story also come to light because when the doctor finds the sore they come to realize she’s been
Mick gets drunk often and doesn’t know how it affects his family so he’s in the shade. Then when Larry gets drunk, he gives Mick a taste of his own medicine and Mick realizes how much he embarasses his family when he gets drunk and staggers home. Towards the end I think Mick starts reflecting on his life as an alcoholic, especially after his wife says, “everyone knows what you are now. God forgive you, wasting our hard-earned few ha’pence on drink, and bringing up your child to be a drunken corner-boy like yourself.”(O’Connor 1). Larry also starts out in the shade because he could never understand why his dad drank often. When he takes his first drink of the alcoholic beverage he doesn’t understand why anybody would want to drink it. He goes on to say, “It was a terrible disappointment. I was astonished that he could even drink such stuff. It looked as if he had never tried lemonade.”(O’Connor 1). As he continues drinking the alcohol he sees the light, as in he experiences the effects of alcohol. He says, “I took a longer drink and began to see that porter might have its advantages. I felt pleasantly elevated and philosophic.”(O’Connor