Even though John Updikes’s and James Joyce differ in stories they both are talking about the same type of situation two boys that are growing up from their different situations from their adolesonces. This common ground becomes clear through the way both of the authors wrote their essays. In John Updike’s essay Sammy Works for A&p when he saw a group of girls come into the store while he was working right away he judged them on what they were wearing and how they looked not even to stop to think about anything about there personality’s. In James Joyce’s essay the author refers to the girl of his his dreams as Megan’s sister? What is her name does he know anything about her. You can see where these stories are starting to one another to relate to one another.
In John Updike’s essay A&P Sammy Is telling the story from his perspective witch makes the essay less interesting in my opinion. On the Other hand with James Joyce’s essay Arbay he is a little bit more Experienced and very articulate with his words witch makes the essay more interesting. Sammy from A&P has become very aggravated at his job because the customers are very inconsiderate for many different reasons: As he mentions “She’s one of the these cash register witches” (227). That gave him hell beause he rang up a box of Hiho crackers two times by mistake. Sammy really got aggravated