Compare two stories `Araby` and `Evelin` by James Joyce

Reality , in the form of these factors which makes his trip to Araby a bad experience , disillusions the young boy . He is left with anguish and anger (Joyce ) and these will affect all that he associates this trip to Araby with , specifically his infatuation with an idealized female in Mangan 's sister . The experience will stop him from creating ideals in the future and he will perceive life as bleak , imperfect , and full of disappointments as his trip to Araby has been

In Eveline , fate is giving the heroine a chance to

change her life in the person of Frank , a sailor who falls in love with Eveline and wants to bring her to Buenos Ayres . Home means working hard to feed younger siblings and an abusive father . This is Eveline 's reality Meanwhile , marriage to Frank means people would treat her with respect .She would not be treated as her mother had been (Joyce Frank is kind , he loves her , and Eveline has to quarrel with her father to meet Frank . Frank and being married to him is the ideal life that is very disparate to her present reality and she would very much like to live this better life . However , at the very moment when Eveline is to ride the ship that would take her away from her drab and hard life , she hears her mother 's voice in her mind , and she gets cold feet . She chooses to stay . This moment of epiphany on Eveline 's character illustrates to the reader how sometimes , the victim can drown in an abusive existence so much so that even if an opportunity to save him presents itself , he would choose to stay behind . The chains of her reality , in the form of her old life , cling so tightly that Eveline...