When one stumbles into a new experience, and he passes through it with or without flying colors, his "Inexperience" is essentially changed to some form of "Experience," whether good or bad. When love is involved in this experience, the learned lesson is remembered forever, for the love that is used as a means of communication is attempted in the real world, and is able to change that person's inexperience for life. No matter the result, one channels his love as a sort of teaching, for himself and others to use as an example; to change their green and callous inexperience to a battlehardy and somewhat matured real experience. In David Updike's short story "Summer," and Flannery O'Conner's short story "Good Country People," this idea of a conflict of experience vs. inexperience is woven within the fabric of each story. In their respective stories, Homer overcomes his inexperience when he meets his first love in the form of a beautiful girl, Sandra, at his best friend's lake house, and Hulga is "graced" by the presence of her first experience of love before it takes a turn for the worst. No matter what the outcome is, each protagonist undergoes a new and exciting feeling that will change the rest of their lives. They grow and mature in a relatively short time from this experience, either eager to pursue it again, or appetent to rebuke the next possible chance.
             Homer has his respective feelings both before and after the "revelation." In "Summer," Homer is stricken with an enamorous feeling at even the first mentioning of Sandra: "The texture of the smooth, unbroken air was cleanly divided by the sound of a slamming door, echoing up into the woods around him...He would watch her, hear the distant door slam, the shower running in the far corner of the house" (Updike 48). As soon as Homer sees this beauty, he decides to pursue her as soon as possible. Y...