Compare and Contrast Essay
Jeffrey Wells
Dr. Matt Hinojosa
Writing 102
23 April 2013
Driven Love:
How Theme, Characterization, Point of View and Setting
Build Up and Rip Apart Hearts
Throughout James Joyce’s and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Stories
Love, money, greed and mistakes: All hit throughout the tournament we play called life. Theme and Characterization are fairly similar in Joyce’s short story, “Araby”, and Fitzgerald’s short story, “Winter Dreams”, while point of view and setting differ throughout these short stories. I will be using two articles to support my compare and contrast essay proving Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” the better short story of the two. Both of these short stories are based on a boy going out of his way to impress their crush before being crushed, left lonely and realizing their stupidity in the end. The elements of fiction, theme, character, point of view and setting are all displayed throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams better than James Joyce’s “Araby” to push along the short stories. James Joyce’s short story, “Araby”, is a fairly short and simple piece. The narrator in this short story is an unnamed boy who has a crush on the neighbor girl who is referred to as “Mangan’s sister”. The narrator waits for her every morning to get a chance to see her and speak a few short words to her. One day the boy asks her if she is going to Araby, a Dublin bizarre. Sadly she cannot go due to a retreat she must attend. The boy offers to get her something from it since she will miss out. He tells his uncle he needs money for transportation but by the time his uncle gives him money it is too late. He still rushes to the bizarre to find everything gone and empty. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams”, Dexter Green falls in love with the gorgeous Judy Jones strictly on her looks. As Dexter is caddying at a golf course he sees Judy and decided to quit his caddy job to start a laundry business. He does this to greater his income because he knows
Dr. Matt Hinojosa
Writing 102
23 April 2013
Driven Love:
How Theme, Characterization, Point of View and Setting
Build Up and Rip Apart Hearts
Throughout James Joyce’s and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Stories
Love, money, greed and mistakes: All hit throughout the tournament we play called life. Theme and Characterization are fairly similar in Joyce’s short story, “Araby”, and Fitzgerald’s short story, “Winter Dreams”, while point of view and setting differ throughout these short stories. I will be using two articles to support my compare and contrast essay proving Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” the better short story of the two. Both of these short stories are based on a boy going out of his way to impress their crush before being crushed, left lonely and realizing their stupidity in the end. The elements of fiction, theme, character, point of view and setting are all displayed throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams better than James Joyce’s “Araby” to push along the short stories. James Joyce’s short story, “Araby”, is a fairly short and simple piece. The narrator in this short story is an unnamed boy who has a crush on the neighbor girl who is referred to as “Mangan’s sister”. The narrator waits for her every morning to get a chance to see her and speak a few short words to her. One day the boy asks her if she is going to Araby, a Dublin bizarre. Sadly she cannot go due to a retreat she must attend. The boy offers to get her something from it since she will miss out. He tells his uncle he needs money for transportation but by the time his uncle gives him money it is too late. He still rushes to the bizarre to find everything gone and empty. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams”, Dexter Green falls in love with the gorgeous Judy Jones strictly on her looks. As Dexter is caddying at a golf course he sees Judy and decided to quit his caddy job to start a laundry business. He does this to greater his income because he knows
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