The Stolen Party And Araby By Liliana Hecker

Many times a person’s expectation does not meet up with reality. Ever expected something to be one way but discovered that your expectations were overrated? In “The Stolen Party” and “Araby”, through the characters and their conflicts, the authors give great examples of having high expectations for something that in the end will be disappointing. The story “The Stolen Party” is written by Liliana Hecker. The story is about a young poor Hispanic girl who want to attend a rich person’s party that she was invited to, but her mother thought that was a bad idea. After Rosaura attended the party she realized that it was a bad idea and she should have listened to her mother in the beginning. In comparison, the “Araby” is written by James Joyce.

The boy’s uncle tried to tell him that what he is expecting from the bazaar is highly exaggerated. After the little boy went to the bazaar and was not able to get his crush a gift he was heartbroken. In both of the stories readers discover how great expectation can led to great devastation. In the short story, the stolen party we as reader learned that a little girl had high expectations for a birthday party, yet in the end she was letdown. The story is about a nine-year-old girl named Rosaura that was invited to a birthday party by her mother’s employer, Senora Ines’s daughter. Rosaura’s mother did not want her attending the party because she as an adult already knew her child’s high expectations were going to distress her. For example, the mother told Rosaura, “that one’s not your friend. It’s a rich people’s party.” This conversation started one of the conflicts in the major conflicts in the story between Rosaura and her

In the story Arbay, there is a little boy who has a huge crush on his best friend’s older sister. During a conversation between the little boy and his crush, the crush implied she wanted a gift but did not actually ask for it. For an example, “While she spoke she turned a silver bracelet round and round her wrist” (Joyce 409). Once the little boy assumed his crush wanted something from the bazaar, he decided he would bring her a gift back expecting to win her as a girlfriend. From this point forward, the little boy is stuck on going to the bazaar on Saturday afternoon. He tried reminding his uncle about attending the bazaar, but his uncle blew him off like a dust ball on a shirt and left the house. The uncle paid no attention to his nephew. As his Aunt notes, “can’t you give the him the money and let him go? You’ve kept him late enough as it is” (Joyce 4??). This quote suggests the uncle has done what he can to get in the way of the little boy attending the bazaar. He is expecting bazaar to be this high Inn Shopping