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Negatve Infatuation. "Negative Infatuations" "Araby," by James Joyce tells
the story of a young boy who lives in Ireland. He lives ...
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"Negative Infatuations"
"Araby," by James Joyce tells the story of a young boy who lives in Ireland. He lives across the road from his friend Mangan. Mangan has an older sister who always tells him it is time to come inside (Joyce 217). Throughout the whole story the boy, Mangans friend, never tells his name. It is as if he does not want anyone to know who he is. However, Sammy, from "A&P," by John Updike, is the story of a young man who, almost every one knows. Sammy works at the local "A&P" grocery store. Sammy's supervisor, Lengel, has worked at the store for many years. In the stories, "Araby," and "A&P," there are two main underlying similarities and one core difference in the outcome.
Both Sammy, from "A&P," and the Narrator from "Araby" are infatuated with women they barely know. Sammy had seen three girls walk into the "A&P" grocery store and thought that the third girl, "She was the Queen" (Updike 333). Queenie walked around the store with her bathing suit straps off her shoulders (Updike 333). As the girls continued to walk around the store, Sammy stared at the Queen. Eventually, the girls came to the cash register with a can of Herring snacks (Updike 335). Sammy hears Queenie telling Lengel, she has to pick up the snacks for her mother, and then he thought, "Her voice kind of startled me
" (Updike 335). The only thing he said to her was .49 cents (Updike 335). For this, Sammy sacrificed his job, maybe even his future. Like "A&P," "Araby" is similar in the same way, where the Narrator is infatuated with a girl he barely knows. The girl is his friend's sister. He does not know her name so he calls her Mangans sister (Joyce 217). The boy watches Mangans house for her to come outside (Joyce 217). "[He] had never spoken to her, except a few casual words
" (Joyce 217). Everyday the boy became more infatuated with Mangans sister. Eventually, the girl talked to him about the bazaar. He told her, "If I go,
"I will...
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