James Joyce's 'Araby' like his 'Eveline'"?

Similarities in the stories "Araby" and "Eveline"

The stories "Araby" and "Eveline" have a lot of similarities. Both stories are written by James Joyce and are set in Ireland. In both stories there is a dead priest who plays a small role.

In both stories the speakers seem to be in love or infatuated with someone. In the story "Eveline", Eveline is in love with, and wants to run away with Frank, and In the story "Araby" the speaker is in love with Mangan's sister. The speakers in both stories seem to be waiting for someone to take them away from their lives, to kind of rescue them from their lives.

Both the boy in "Araby" and Eveline seem like they both feel as if they are outsiders, but when the both get a chance to leave or change their lives in away neither of them takes he chance. When Eveline goes to leave with Frank, shev ends up breaking down and not leaving with him. She thinks about her love for her father and brother even though her father is abusive and she has had a lot of hardship, she still ends up saying home. The boy in Araby has second thoughts about buying Mangan's sister the gift he was going to buy her at the bazaar. In the end he breaks down as well and he does not buy her the gift.

Essay Outline (Boys And Girls)

Essay Outline                                                                                    Boys And Girls

Paragraph One: Clearly state thesis statement
Paragraph Two: Two pieces of evidence to support the thesis/main point
Paragraph Three: Two pieces of evidence to support the thesis/main point
Paragraph Four: Two pieces of evidence to support thesis/main point
Paragraph Five: Restate thesis and conclude essay


A Detailed Outline

Paragraph One: Boys and Girls is a story about a girl who enjoys working outside with her father doing chores, but once she gets older, she realizes that her mother expects her to be inside doing housework with her, because she is a girl, and a girls place is in the house doing housework according to society. Woman are suppose to for-fill certain duties whether she wants to or not, souly because she is a woman.

Paragraph Two: boys and girls you can see how society thinks about mens roles and womens roles in the comment, "one time a feed salesman came down into the pens to talk to him and my father said, "like to have you meet my new hired man." I turned around and raked furiously, red in the face with pleasure. "could of fooled me," said the salesman. "I thought it was only a girl."" also in the comment, "It was an odd thin to see my mother down at the barn. She did not often come out of the house unless it was to do something-hang out the wash or dig potatoes in the garden. She looked out of place."

Paragraph Three: In boys and girls you can see how the characters feel about the the different roles woman and men have when the speaker writes, "I heard my mother saying,"Wait till Laird gets bigger, then you'll have a real help."" This implying that the work she is doing is not real help because she is a girl. also this is shown when the speaker writes,"And then I can use her more in the house, I just get my back turned and she runs off. It's not like I have a girl in the family at all."

Paragraph Four: In girls and boys the speaker writes, "I girl was not, as I supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become. It was a definition, always touched with emphasis, with  reproach and disappointment. Also it was a joke on me."
Another comment, "Girls don't slam doors like that. Girls keep there knees together when they sit down. And worse still, when I asked some questions, "That's none of a girls business."

Paragraph Five: In Boys and Girls the little girl is starting to grow up and realize that she is starting to be treated differently because she is a girl. She is made to do house work with her mother, instead of working outside with her father which is what she enjoys. She is starting to see that people expect her to obtain her roles in the house doing house work as a woman. She does not feel that her place is in the house, even though that what her mother and grandmother thinks, and in the end, that seems to be what her father thinks as well.