complicated. He knew he could never get through it all again. (94). This revealed that he was probably lazy and put forward no effort to get a girl. From Speaking of Courage the quotation On his third day home hed seen her out mowing the lawn, still pretty in a lacy red blouse and white shorts. For a moment hed almost pulled over, just to talk, but instead hed pushed down hard on the gas pedal. (159) also demonstrates the similarity. Also the point of view in the two stories are the same. Both stories have the point of view of third person, as we have a narrator describe what each character is doing. Aside from the many similarities there are also a lot of differences between the two stories. One difference between the two stories is the plot. Speaking of Courage is about a guy who circles around a lake twelve times while imaging scenes in his head that could have possibly taken place. In the other story Soldiers Home it was about a guy that goes home and sits around all day watching girls walk by on his front porch. The story reveals his feelings about girls throughout the first half of the story. Then finally in the end he has a complicated conversation with his mother.Another difference between the two stories is the setting. The short story, Speaking of Courage took place after the main character, Norman Bowker, returned to his home after the Vietnam War. While in Speaking of Courage, the story took place a few years following World War I. Speaking of Courage took place in Norman Bowkers van most of the time as he was making revolutions are the lake. In Soldiers Home the story was mostly on the front porch of Krebs home and inside his kitchen. The dialogue and structure of the two stories are also different. In Soldiers Home the first half of the story contained no dialogue and in the second half of the story, it contained a whole conversation to the end of the story. In Speaking of Courage, the whole story was mixe...
