A&P and Greasy Lake

Oily Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle and A&P by John Updike are the two tales about transitioning. Over the ages there have been numerous changes. In these two short-stories it demonstrates that, in spite of the fact that it happens in various ages, transitioning is as yet an opportunity to demonstrate one’s self. A&P is around a nineteen-year-old kid that works at a neighborhood market. The primary character, Sammy, faces his administrator trying to protect and ideally intrigue the young ladies he was pulled in to, who were not â€Å"decently dressed. Oily Lake then again is told from the narrator’s perspective, around a few nineteen years of age young men who pull a trick on a â€Å"bad† character and experience what awful characters can do. For the storyteller and Sammy they understand their absence of infantility after their contentions with others in the narratives. In Sammy’s case, â€Å"enraged that Lengel has mortified the girls†, he l eaves his place of employment attempting to safeguard and dazzle the young ladies. The young ladies simply overlook Sammy and leave the store after the entirety of the contending had faded away. Sammy is then left without anyone else, without work and without the young ladies. At the point when he glances back at the store from outside, â€Å"[his] stomach sort of fell as [he] felt how hard the world would have been to [him] in the future. † Obviously, he is feeling a feeling of disappointment when Sammy makes reference to the hardship in his life after he leaves his place of employment at the supermarket. The storyteller in Greasy Lake likewise learns an exercise for the story. He discovers that one’s appearance doesn't speak to one’s genuine self. Three of the â€Å"dangerous characters†, including the storyteller and his companions, â€Å"drive out to rubbish and decline thickened Greasy Lake in scan for activity. †