Araby and A&P provide accounts of the difficulties that people going through the youth crisis face. The problems may be rooted in the frustration that teenagers experience when the enticing promises of new love, opportunity, magical and distant places are crushed by boring daily existence and conventions. Araby shows the difficult path young people travel to enter adulthood. When the main character becomes fascinated by the image of his neighbor's sister, he discovers that the world around him is vulgar, boring, and “hostile to romance” (Joyce 87). He “grows” from his family reality; his soul begins to desire freedom and harmony. The main character no longer sees himself as a child and everyday activities become “an ugly and monotonous child's play” (Joyce 88). He sees the opportunity to go to Arabia and buy a gift for his neighbor's sister as a chance to escape prosaic reality and live his dreams. From this perspective, going to the enchanting bazaar gives a new meaning to one's existence, becoming the symbol of entry into adult life. However, a visit to the deserted bazaar, where familiar-looking people speak English and use the word "fib", shatters the main character's dreams. Learn that the much desired change is unattainable and that adult life is not about going to magical places but about suffering and disillusionment. Therefore, the discrepancy between imagination and reality can be called the root of the main character's problem. However, the main character's reaction to the events could have been different if his uncle and teacher had paid more attention to the boy's feelings. From this perspective, Araby is also the story of loneliness. As soon as the main character focuses on the desire to go to the bazaar, his usual course of actions is interrupted and... in the middle of the paper... flexibility is the difficulty that young people encounter when they have to make choices. Sammy's problem is that in trying to prove his point to the manager he forgot about the consequences of his actions. The exit from the store was triumphant “I've just entered the electric eye in my white shirt that my mother ironed the night before, and the door opens, and outside the sun skates on the asphalt” (Updike 36). However, outside of real life awaits Sammy: “my stomach dropped when I heard how hard the world would be for me from now on” (Updike 36). The root of the problem is Sammy's stubbornness and inability to think about the effect of his actions on others. Even when reporting the facts Sammy tries to argue and disagree: "here comes the sad part of the story, at least my family says it's sad but I don't think it's sad" (Updike 34).