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Analysis through Comparison and Contrast

Introduction

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce is the most popular short accounts in American writing. It was primarily published in the San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890 and then materialized in Bierce's compilation of short tales. The story is an examination of a fated man's consciousness all through his death (Cooper, 1968). Though, apparently a warfare story, the account is sometimes incorporated in mystical compilations for its representation of uncharacteristic experience and has been mentioned as a momentous investigation of psychology in short story. Whereas, Joyce's best acknowledged short tales, “Araby” is the third tale in his short literature compilation, Dubliners, which was published in 1914 (Atherton, 1969). It is taken as a major exemplar of Joyce's usage of epiphany—a sudden disclosure of fact regarding life encouraged by an apparently inconsequential incident—as the storyteller feels his disenchantment with his conception of perfect love when he efforts to get a gesture of love for a young maiden.

Discussion

Comparison and Contrast

"Araby" is one of fifteen short tales that together frame Joyce's anthology, Dubliners. For many years, Dubliners was well thought-out little more than an unimportant volume of biologist creative writing bringing to mind the reserved societal setting of turn-of-the-century Dublin. When reviewers started to discover the individual accounts in the collected works, much consideration was given on the representation in “Araby,” mainly the religious metaphors and the marketplace. In actual fact, some critics have invested the narrative with several covers of implication and spiritual imagery; others support a more apparent interpretation. Fictional references, impacts, and autobiographical features of the tale have also been a rich part for investigating the plot; in actual fact, the storyline have outlines of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Homer's The Odyssey. Throughout the ...