Coparison of Vehicles in "Araby" by James Joyce and "A&P" by John Updike

The two short stories, “A&P” by John Updike and “Araby” by James Joyce, portray two young men moving on vehicles of desire, uplifting standards, romantic impulses, and failure towards maturity. Each vehicle is natural and suitable because all young people go through trials of love and loss in their lives. Desire sparks each boy to move to the next stage of romantic impulses while being oppressed by religion/community standards and resulting in a failed attempted to win the attention of their love interests. Each vehicle is a trail that results in error in the young men’s lives as was as a cold distinction between their fantasy and reality.
In “Araby,” the narrator is the young character’s older self, pausing back on attempt to help a young lady, Mangan, who is oppressed by her obligations to her faith and is not able to go to the bazaar Araby. The young man’s, whose name is a mystery through out the short story, desires and fantasies tug at his heart and encourag...