Compares "Araby" by James Joyce, and "My Antonia" by Willa Cather

Lesson in Adolescence
My Antonia and "Araby", two different stories that have many compelling ties. Araby and My Antonia are connected in that they both deal with relationships and a person's desires. Although they both have strong characters that reveal many human attributes, they both have their differences. In the following, James Joyce's character in "Araby" and Jim Burden in Will Cather's My Antonia will be examined.
To begin, the young boy in "Araby" was on a quest for the ideal love. The quest ends in failure but results in an inner awareness and a first step into manhood. …