Introduction This paper provides a comparative essay on the works of two eminent authors Margaret Atwood and Chinua Achebe. While Margaret lived in Canada and Chinua was from Nigeria, two nations on different continents and different worlds, each had a unique style of writing in which the readers were immersed along with the characters and the stories. The two works discussed are Margaret Atwood’s “Dancing Girls” and Chinua Achebe’s “The Madman”. The paper first provides a brief synopsis of the story and then provides a comparison of different subjects that occur in the books and how the author has handled the subjects. Brief Synopsis of the two works Margaret Atwood’s book ‘The Dancing Girls’ is a collection of 16 short stories and the Dancing Girls is one of the stories and has given the name for the collection (Atwood, 1998). The story relates the experiences and fantasies of the main character, Anna student, who is staying as a tenant in a guesthouse. There are some other tenants such as a trio of South Koreans who study mathematics in the college and another man, an Arab who intrigues Ann. The story is intense in its portrayal of the background and subtle nuances and interpretations as the lonely Ann lives out her boredom and her college pressures. The landlady Mrs. Nolan is talkative and garrulous and always complaining as she hounds her tenant. The story ends when one day the Arab gentleman hires some dancing girls, brings them to the room and has a big party. The landlady drives the girls out and the Arab and Ann are left with her dreams of creating an Urban design (Cooke, 2004). Chinua Achebe’s The Madman (Achebe, 1991) is about a man called Nwibe who has worked hard, long, and earned success. He has a flourishing farm, has married several times as is the custom in the characters place and he has fathered many children. Nwibe has higher aspirations and wants to be the leader of his clan but one day when he was bathing, a madman steals his clothes. Nwibe runs after the madman, stark naked and in the process he commits sacrilege when he enters the marketplace naked and offends the local god and deity and he becomes tongue-tied and cannot speak, so great is the trauma. People now begin to see Nwibe as the mad person and not the madman who had stolen the clothes. A witchdoctor is called and he is finally cured but his importance and stature in his village is lost. The story picks up with interpretations of sanity and insanity and what is the difference (Booker, 2003). Comparison of various themes in the two stories A comparison of various subjects and themes in the two stories has been presented in this section. Writing style Achebe’s style of writing in the story in unique and he has discarded the unwritten principle that African writers should do their best to imitate what native English writers do. Consequently, while reading the book, it is evident that this is a native African speaking about his land and his people and in his tongue (Ezenwa, 1997). In addition, the author always believed that stories are written for a human purpose and need to have a definite theme and should head in a required direction, just like the ancient African myths. The author b