Love comes in different ways, sometimes you are beloved and sometimes you are not. Anyway love comes; the most important thing is what you do to hold it and being careful of what you do. Love is important but sometimes we have to put ourselves first because some people do not value you for who you are. Then it is when we have to think with the head and not with the heart. The big problem here is that in some occasions that crush or that love makes us blind. This essay will present the reality and meaning the stories, the similarities and the differences in the stories “Araby” a young boy who fall in love with the sister of his friend and “A Very Short Story” s a soldier who falls in love with a nurse. The main idea in both stories is love, but more than love they are stories about a boy and a man that have a childish infatuation making them to do that what will make their crush fall in love with them.
Falling in love in some ways is very difficult and we have to be very careful. We see that in “Araby” it is a boy that thinks he has fallen in love but in reality it is an infatuation because he sees her like some goal that he wants to achieve. She was older than him and the first time that she talked to him, she only showed herself very interested in having something from the bazaar and nothing more. But for him she was that star that he wanted to touch, and we all know that you cannot touch a star unless you have a rocket. He saw the souvenir that she wanted like that rocket that will take him to that star (her). We see that all along the story he only thought in that souvenir because for him the souvenir was the key to making Mangan’s sister fall in love with him. This expectation that makes him think that she could possibly fall in love with the gift from the bazaar is that innocence that we all have with our first love. We would do everything that could make that person fall in love with us. In time we learn that it does not work in that way. It was understandable that he thought that way because he was a young boy; for sure she was his first love.
In “A Very Short Story” we see that they wanted to be together but there were some obstacles that did not let them be together. They never had the chance to know each other but they were being together at night as a couple and in addition they never mentioned that none of them were being unfaithful. This is when the infatuation began, we see later that they talked about marrying each other before he went to the war but it could not be possible. She sent him many letters telling him that, when he finishes the armistice that if his gat a good job maybe she would marry him get. The third paragraph then says: “It was understood he would not drink, and he did not want to see his friends or anyone in the states. Only to get a job and get married.” Now we see that he had hope and he wanted to do what she wanted because he wanted to be with her. Later in the story she meets an Italian man and all his hopes vanished. They understood then that all that happened between them was a boy and girl affair.
These two “boys” in both stories have the same situation they are in love with a woman or a girl and they tried to be together with them by giving something or doing something that will bring them together. There are some differences too, they are from different ages but their minds are not so different and their goal was the same. The love made them blind and this is a good example in both stories, we see that the girl talked to him with an interest to have something from the bazaar and the woman says: “Luz will not come home until he had a GOOD JOB…”, if she was in love she could have waited for him and helped him find a good job like she wanted him too. When the stories come to an end, we notice the characters had an infatuation or a boy and girl love, the difference between them is that the boy understood what happened and learned but the man just contracted gonorrhea from the first girl that seemed kind to him just like he did with the nurse. He came back to do the same and we can see the irony in the author when he describes the other girl like “…he contracted gonorrhea from a sales girl in a LOOP department store…” maybe it was too late to learn.
With these stories from different authors we see similarity and differences, but we see the same idea in the stories. The difference becomes a good lesson because, those who do not learn it are big example of what could happen if they do the same, if you learn it you have an opportunity to began again. We have to learn to differentiate between what is a true love and just a company like the nurse and the soldier, a sex relationship and the girl in “Araby” that she never made a move that would make him understand that she was in love. I think that the most important thing is not to create a pattern doing the same thing over and over again because you will be alone all your life and everyone will play with you. And a very important thing: NEVER MAKE SOMEONE A PRIORITY WHEN THEY ONLY MAKE YOU AN OPTION!
