Comparison of Styles and Settings

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A Comparison of Styles and Settings In the short story "Soldier's Home," by Ernest Hemingway, Kreb's rejection of his community's values can be related to Sammy's relationship to his supermarket job in John Updike's "A & P." Even though the two stories are different in style, one story being more serious and gloomy and the other being more humorous and sarcastic, they both reveal two similar settings, which the main characters reject. Both authors use precise …

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…Home" and "A&P" the authors present two stories that show differences and similarities. They prove this by using two styles that are very different, but at the same time having main characters that react to the setting of their towns by rebelling against them. All in all, both authors show how even though two stories may have different styles they still can have similar settings and characters that react the same to the settings.