Comparing James Joyces Araby and Ernest Hemingways A Clean, Well-Ligh

Comparing James Joyces Araby and Ernest Hemingways A Clean, Well-Lighted shoot forAs divergent as James Joyces Araby and Ernest Hemingways A Clean, Well-Lighted shoot for are in style, they handle many of the same themes. Both stories explore hope, anguish, faith, and despair. While Araby depicts a youth being set up for his for the first time great disappoint handst, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place shows two ageinger men who have long ago settled for despair, both stories use a number of analogous symbols, and lap over each other thematically.At the beginning of Araby, the narrator describes the streets lamps as lifting their feeble lanterns towards an ever-changing violet tack (227). The colour violet is both dark and rich. The sky, this deep, mysterious colour, and always mutating, suggests the country of unknown beyond mortal experience. The feeble lights which fail to lick the lowest tufts of cloud resemble the people who look out into the fog of incontestible questions who can never hope to find anything plainly the shapes one reads in, corresponding hillside skywatchers.The narrators character goes around looking up. First at Mangans sis from the shadow, from the floor, and from the range position of an admirer. Then, more metaphorically, he looks up to an image hes built for himself an forethought of beauty and treasures an enthusiastic hope or hopeful enthusiasm that his journey to Araby will yield him if not the answer (to the question which manifests as a nameless longing), then the key to the answer. This answer is represented by Mangans sister (whose name is not mentioned, as with the Hebrew G-d), whom the boy hopes to access finished the gesture of his quest.1 At the end, the boy looks up again, like the l... ...othing in it. Hemingways old man walks away from the bar with dignity, but with hope long vanished. The aged(a) waiter, another faithless man, is resigned to nothingness. His mockery of Christian prayer is not angry, but spoken with a smile and a sigh. However, as indicated by his insomnia, nix is a cold bedfellow. Works Cited Hemingway, Ernest. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. Kirszner and Mandell 233. Joyce, James. Araby. Kirszner and Mandell 226. Kirszner, Laurie, and Stephen Mandell, eds. lit Reading, Reacting, Writing. Compact Fourth Edition. New York Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. 1This character may also affirm as a sexual symbol. The bracelet she handles when she speaks of the convent may suggest that she is shackle to Catholic prudery. In any case, she still stands as the desired, physically or metaphysically.