Comparing James Lasdun's It's Beginning to Hurt and Joseph Epstein's "The Perpetual Adolescent"

Drawing from at least 3 of the assigned James Lasdun readings, develop a thesis that compares adolescence as a pathological stagnation in Lasdun's characters with Joseph Epstein's essay "The Perpetual Adolescent."

Develop a thesis about maladaptation and the demon homunculus by comparing two stories in John Updike's edited collection.