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

Comparing pack Joyces Araby and Ernest Hemingways A Clean, Well-Lighted interjectAs divergent as crowd together Joyces Araby and Ernest Hemingways A Clean, Well-Lighted Place are in style, they handle some of the same themes. Both stories explore hope, anguish, faith, and despair. While Araby depicts a youth world set up for his first great disappointment, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place shows two older 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 game lanterns towards an ever-changing violet sky (227). The colour violet is both forbidding and rich. The sky, this deep, mysterious colour, and always mutating, suggests the expanse of unknown beyond mortal experience. The rickety lights which fail to lick the lowest tufts of cloud resemble the people who insure out into the fog of un reparteeable questions who c an never hope to date anything only if the shapes one reads in, like hillside skywatchers.The narrators part goes around looking up. counterbalance at Mangans sister from the shadow, from the floor, and from the subordinate position of an admirer. Then, more metaphorically, he looks up to an image hes built for himself an expectation of beauty and treasures an enthusiastic hope or hopeful enthusiasm that his pilgrimage to Araby will yield him if not the dish out (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 Hebraic G-d), whom the boy hopes to access through 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 older waiter, another faithless man, is resigned to nothingness. His mockery of Christian prayer is not angry, but s poken with a smile and a sigh. However, as indicated by his insomnia, Nada 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. Literature Reading, Reacting, Writing. Compact Fourth Edition. New York Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. 1This character may also stand as a sexual symbol. The bauble she handles when she speaks of the convent may suggest that she is shackled to Catholic prudery. In any case, she tranquilize stands as the desired, physically or metaphysically.