A 5 page comparison of these two exceptionally captivating works of fiction. Each focuses on the initiation of a young man to the trials and tribulations of life as well as the distinctions which exist between reality and fantasy. No additional sources are listed. Bibliography lists five sources. The paper concludes that in all three of these plays, life is most comfortably lived in an anesthetizing haze of liquor and fantasy because naked reality is too horrible to contemplate.
Bibliography lists nine sources.