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Story Comparison Looking deep into the two stories that were read, it can be found that they are similar in some ways. Looking at the stories as how they are, it will be found that they are far from being comparable. One story is based on a boy and his first day of work and the other is based on a woman that does not appreciate being called by the wrong name. The story “My name is Margaret” is about a girl that is upset when she is called by the wrong name. The story “Digging” is about a young boy who has just started his first job and the struggles of the job. These stories represent how life will always have its struggles that we have to overcome through time. These two stories both take place in the south during the mid-century. In “Digging” the boy respects his father and does not want his father to think any less of him. He is even embarrassed to tell his father that he threw up at work. He does not want for his father to think that he can’t handle being a man. He expresses this when they are in the car, “I let my father believe I was brave, because I was afraid to tell him that I was afraid to tell the foreman.”(Dubus 59) In “My name is Margaret” the girl respects her family and the name that the