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A&P
On the surface of it, "A&P" describes a fairly innocuous, harmless event. A bored check-out clerk at the local A&P store has the monotony of his day broken by three girls who walk into the...
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John Updike's 1961 short story "A&P" contains many examples of figurative language. Simile and metaphor are the most commonly used, but there are several examples of personification, as well....
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There are three main conflicts in John Updike's "A & P": Man vs. Society, Man vs. Man, and Man vs. Self. Man vs. Society As Sammy, who narrates, checks out an older woman's groceries, he...
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You could pick either answer, because both answers can be adequately defended. Most of the analyses that I have been through over the years regarding this story all like the "Sammy is rebelling...
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Updike really is a master of sensual description, allowing readers to see, hear, feel, taste and smell the surroundings created in his writing. He studied to be a visual artist which may partly...
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Araby
"A&P" and "Araby" have a similar plot: we have a first-person narrator, a young teenage boy, describing a particular encounter with a highly attractive and desirable teenage girl; the boy has...
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A&P
At the end of the story, Sammy quits his job after his manager, Lengel, tells three girls, who have been shopping in their bathing suits, that they need to dress decently when they come into the A...
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One way that you can begin an analysis paper on these three stories is with an observation of how the surroundings in which person is immersed affects her or him. This observation aligns with what...
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One of the strongest symbols in “A & P” is the work apron Sammy wears. Because the short story is considered a rite of passage or coming of age story, Sammy taking off the apron is a...
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In John Updike's A&P there are a lot of realistic points to discuss. First off, the narrator's voice was absolutely believable. The character works in a supermarket, and seems to people watch...
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It is certainly open to interpretation as to why Updike uses Sammy as the narrator in his short story "A & P." This is my perception. This often anthologized short story is generally seen as a...
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First, a note about dates: The Victorian era ended with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and John Updike's story was published in 1961 and is set in the late 1950s. Thus even the oldest people...
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John Updike's short story "A & P" is set in a beach town. Yet, Sammy makes certain to note that the beach is five miles from the A & P store, and the store is "in the middle of town." The...
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When Sammy tells Mr. Lengel that he didn't need to embarrass the girls, he is, for the first time, taking a stand against the authority Mr. Lengel represents. The story takes place in the 1960's,...
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In "A & P" by John Updike, Sammy is the protagonist. The story is told from Sammy's point of view, and we find out much more about Sammy than we do about the other characters. Thus you are...
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A great many of the perceptions one has regarding a piece of literature or art are unique to each individual based on personal opinion and experience. My perception of the sadness the family feels...
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A&P
Both protagonists of the stories "A & P" and "Araby" find that their romantic notions and ideals are shattered when they enter the adult world of harsh reality. "A & P" Sammy romanticizes...
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Since at one point in my life I was a teenage boy, the entire story stands out as particularly true to life. "A & P" narrates the internal monologue of a 19 year old store clerk when a group...
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A&P
Sammy has a moment at the end of the story in which he asserts himself, gains self-esteem and a sense of individuality, but in a complex way. Sammy is cynical and romantic. He exhibits a kind of...
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Although his treatment of theme may be more humorous than in such classic stories as Joyce's "Araby" and Faulkner's "Barn Burning," John Updike's "A & P" has the theme of Initiation. Like so...
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A&P
Sammy, the protagonist of A & P by John Updike, would like to imagine himself as a chivalrous hero, protecting young ladies from evil and thereby coming to their notice. He thinks of his grand...
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A&P
According to the author himself, Sammy's "gesture of quitting has to do with the fact that she [Queenie] was rich and he was poor, as he sees it." For, Sammy's class awareness and his act of...
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A&P
Sammy (and, for that matter, his coworker Stokesie) is fascinated by the girls because they are wearing bathing suits in the A&P. He is basically smitten with a girl he perceives as the leader...
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A&P
"A & P," a short story by John Updike, was first published in the New Yorker in 1961. In this period, the New Yorker was aimed toward a well educated, affluent audience in the New York area,...
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A&P
A comic story trimmed with both satire and sentiment, John Updike's "A&P," with the title of a long-time grocery chain that catered to middle America, depicts the rebellion of a young worker...
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Discussions of John Updike's short story "A & P" often center on the coming-of-age theme as it plays out in Sammy's reaction to three girls in bikinis who walk into the A & P and his...
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A&P
John Updike’s short story A&P is about a 19-year-old boy-transitioning-to-man, Sammy, ambivalently employed at a small town market in Massachusetts, “north of Boston,” whose attempt at...
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A&P
In Updike's story, set in first person perspective, the main character/narrator is an adolescent on the cusp of manhood who is exploring various potential facets of his identity: as a worker, as a...
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A&P
Lengel, the manager of the A & P [Atlantic and Pacific grocery store chain] is the authoritative figure, the representative of the system, who is in the store to enforce policy and maintain...
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A&P
John Updike, it seems, knew vicariously a boss named Lengel since the man employed Updike's mother as a saleswoman in his store, perhaps a decade or so before the Lengel of "A & P." Of course,...
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Araby
Both of these short stories are particularly convincing in terms of their verisimilitude, or the way in which a narrative appears to be convincing or plausible. This is related to the themes of...
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Araby
The imagery and symbolism used in both of these stories are used to convey the central character in each story, and to develop the themes that the stories raise. For example, in "A&P," the way...
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Araby
The point of view of both of these short stories is the same, and the narrative perspective is used to develop the reader's understanding of the characters in these short stories and the kind of...
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A&P
Sammy quits his job to protest his boss’s treatment of the girl he likes. In the story, Sammy is trying to find himself. He is self-conscious and socially frustrated. When he sees the girl...
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Updike is sharply critical of supermarket society, and this criticism is expressed through the voice of his narrator in "A & P," Sammy, who sees the way that Lengel, his boss, treats the girls...
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The 1950s was the era of Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, and I Love Lucy--all television shows in which the "leading ladies" wore shirdresses with pearls and earrings, donning an apron when...
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“I look around for my girls, but they’re gone.” John Updike’s protagonist in “A & P” wants to be a hero, but Sammy falls short. Sammy serves as the narrator of the story which...
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Because the story represents a specific time, when current-day sexism was not as readily identifiable, it cannot be called "sexist" in any malicious sense. Instead, the story shows how an average...
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"A & P" by John Updike was written early in his career. In an interview, Updike claimed that Sammy was somewhat autobiographical for the author when he was writing the story: 1960s. The...
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A&P
Sammy thinks that he is impressing the girls with his "ideological" stand. In reality, they aren't interested in him at all. But he pretty much gets what he deserves, since he is just putting on a...
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A&P
First of all, let’s discuss what an analogy is. An analogy is a comparison. In literature, this usually refers to similes and metaphors. A simile is an indirect comparison using “like” or...
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A&P
In "A & P," Sammy stands up for Queenie in attempts to be romantic and heroic. Queenie and the two girls walk into the A & P wearing only bathing suits. They are flouting conventions, being...
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A "stock character" is... ...a character in literature...requiring no development by the writer. The stock character is also described as: A character type that appears repeatedly in a...
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A&P
John Updike's story, "A & P," is told from the first person point of view with Sammy as the narrator. The setting for the story is a local grocery store in Massachusetts in the early...
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John Updike, an award winning American author, wrote both short stories and novels. "A & P "was one of his early publications. He wrote for the New Yorker Magazine and won two Pultizer Prizes...
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In John Updike’s story “A &P” we see three sets of values at work. There are the girls who come into the store inappropriately dressed. Their values are reflected in their behavior. They...
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In John Updike's short story "A&P," Sammy calls the people in the store sheep. Sammy refers to the people as sheep because he fails to see any differences between them. Essentially, he does not...
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A&P
John Updike's A&P uses a first person narrator to show how men, especially young men, sometimes objectify women in terms of their appearance and intelligence. It goes beyond simple stereotyping...
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Both of the protagonists in the beginning of A&P and Araby are young teenage boys who have fairy tale-like fantasies about women around them. At the start of each story both of them are...
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A&P
John Updike's short story "A & P" considers many of the themes central to adolescence such as impetuosity, maturation, choices and consequences, and individualism. Sammy, the narrator and main...
