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.