Short Story Comparison- "A&P" and "An Ounce of Cure" If a reader is given two short stories, two stories that are seemingly different on the surface, to read and compare and contrast, a surprising amount of similarities and differences can be found. Unless they deal with the same subject matter, most short stories aren't really related, until some analysis is done. The stories "A&P," by John Updike, and "An Ounce of Cure," by …showed first 75 words of 1585 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1585 total…to have obvious similarities and differences to be similar and different. If a reader simply reads into the story a little bit and infers a small amount of information, similarities and differences can be found. A good example of this are the two short stories "A&P," by John Updike, and "An Ounce of Cure," by Alice Munro. They seem to be totally unrelated on the surface, but can be compared and contrasted very easily.