A Comparison of the Main Characters in "Araby" and "The Swimmer"

<Tab/>During a person's lifetime, he or she will go through an experience where reality sets in. This realization happens either very quickly or takes time. In "Araby" and "The Swimmer" the two main characters go through a circumstance that brings them into reality. Even though the boy in "Araby" and the man, Neddy, in "The Swimmer" are in different phases of their lives they share a similarity in the process of figuring out what life has for them.
<Tab/>In "Araby" a young boy falls madly in love with Mangan's sister, a teenager. He has this fantasy where he…