Frontiers in Art Research, 2020, 2(7); doi: 10.25236/FAR.2020.020703.
Yuan Tian
School of English Language and Culture, Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College
This paper offers a comparative study of two pieces of short stories: namely, James Joyce’s “Araby” and Alice Munro’s “How I Met my husband” from the perspective of literary genre Bildungsroman. The protagonists’ development from innocence to maturity according to the three distinctive features of Bildungsroman are discussed, and the focus is on the similarities revealed in both stories when the protagonists try to pursue order and value in their growth and struggles. Specifically, two pairs of conflicts will be discussed: the confrontation between the child and adult worlds and the impingement of the reality on the ideal.
Comparative Study, protagonists’ development, discussed
Yuan Tian. Life is Elsewhere a Comparative Study of “Araby” and “How I Met my Husband”. Frontiers in Art Research (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 7: 15-30. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2020.020703.
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