A&P and Greasy Lake

Oily Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle and A&P by John Updike are the two anecdotes 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 nearby market. The fundamental character, Sammy, faces his administrator trying to safeguard and ideally dazzle 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 terrible 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 embarrassed the girls†, he leaves his place of employment attempting to guard and intrigue the young ladies. The young ladies simply disregard Sammy and leave the store after the entirety of the contending had faded away. Sammy is then left without anyone else, without a vocation 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 market. The storyteller in Greasy Lake additionally 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 filth and decline coagulated Greasy Lake in look for activity. †