In many stories of the modern era, love is a driving theme or idea of ​​a story. Often the plot follows a similar path. First of all, there is a distance between the two loves. Then there must be a quest for the man to acquire the feelings for the girl of his dreams and then the story ends with a happily ever after ending. In James Joyce's "Araby," it seems that the plot is likely to resemble an average love plot. It begins with a boy, the narrator, who falls in love with his friend's sister. He begins to have a little conversation with the girl and soon thinks that if he makes the trip to the Arabian Bazaar and brings something back to the girl, he will receive her love. However, the boy has a revelation that his quest will not endear the girl and he returns home ashamed. There is also a similar message in “A Dill Pickle” by Katherine Mansfield. Here, a couple meets again in a café after a long separation. The man thinks he can win the woman's heart, but yet, at the end of the story, she walks out of the restaurant. Both of these authors use love as a tool to drive their plot, but by the end of the story, they turn it into a lesson that love is not what it's cracked up to be. In “Araby” by James Joyce, the main character and also the narrator live in a small Irish Christian town on North Richmond Street. While Joyce uses religion as one of his main imagery ideas, he uses love to guide the plot of the story. Joyce begins the story of a young schoolboy falling in love with Mangan's sister. The boy thought he was so in love that he “clasped the palms of my hands together until they trembled, whispering: ‘O love! O love'. At this point in the story, the boy has fallen in love with what he believes is desperately in love with this young girl. However, ...... middle of paper ...... their news to show that love is not really the way one fantasizes about and often ends in sadness. In "Araby", the young boy thinks that if he brings something from the bazaar to his love, she will fall in love with him. However, the boy has an epiphany and sees that even if he brings something back to the girl, she won't like it and he returns home sad and ashamed. In “A Dill Pickle,” a woman sees a man with whom she had a relationship. He manages to tell her the story of how he did all the things they said they would do together and somehow the girl begins to fall in love with him again. But at the end of the story, the girl realizes that the man is self-centered and that she is better off alone. She leaves the restaurant alone rather than leaving love. In modern times, love is used as a tool to drive the plot, but ultimately there is rarely a happy ending..