The Stages of Maturation in James Joyce’s Araby John...

When comparing the views of both James Joyce and John Updike on maturation from adolescence to adulthood it will be important to continually compare two of their similar works in Joyce’s â€Å"Araby† and Updike’s â€Å"AP†. James Joyce and John Updike follow similar views with the latter using Joyce as a foundation and following in similar footsteps; both authors follow a process of maturation based on the allure of love, while doing it at different stages of each of the protagonists’ lives resulting in similar views with different stages. First, both authors use the characters telling their own story in first person narration to express the protagonist’s inner thoughts and level of maturity. Second, again both Joyce and Updike use several literary metaphor’s to express the sexual and provocative intention of the main characters. Lastly, Joyce and Updike use different age, maturity and settings in their stories to define their rate of maturation and the results of the story. To begin, the first person narrative used in James Joyce’s â€Å"Araby† allows for Joyce to develop a younger character whose feelings, thoughts and maturity level is open to the understanding and criticism of the audience. The expansive level of personal description by Joyce’s narrator also indicates that the Joyce is trying to both develop the story itself but also the protagonist in terms of maturity level, general intelligence and knowledge. One of the main similarities between the two stories is the fact thatShow MoreRelatedANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pagesarranged sequence of interrelated events that constitute the basic narrative structure of a novel or a short story. Events of any kind, of course, inevitably involve people, and for this reason it is virtually impossible to discuss plot in isolation from character. Character and plot are, in fact, intimately and reciprocally related, especially in modern fiction. A major function of plot can be said to be the representation of characters in action, though as we will see the action involved can be internal