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Sammy thinks of customers as sheep because he really doesn't care about them as individuals. They are all the same to him...simply people that are there to buy goods. Also, let's think about how...
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Regarding the question that asks what the girls were wearing, that question can be answered by reading the very first sentence of the story. The three girls are wearing bathing suits. Sammy is the...
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"A&P" is a short story written by John Updike and first published in The New Yorker in 1961. The story is set in an A&P grocery store in modern-day Massachusetts on a Thursday afternoon....
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The mundane details of a suburban grocery store create a realistic setting for "A&P." Sammy explains something of the store's geography. He is in the third checkout slot, with his back to the...
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In the cold light of day, it's just dawned on Sammy that he's made a really stupid mistake. He thought that by quitting his job out of sympathy with the three young women he was acting like a hero....
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In the first paragraph of "A&P," as the girls walk into the store, Sammy forgets whether he has already rung up a purchase and has to placate the angry customer when he makes a mistake. He says...
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Sammy describes the girls based on their bodies but also on their movements and general deportment. He refers to one of them as "Queenie" because she seems to be the leader. His description of...
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In John Updike's short story "A&P," Sammy is portrayed in a very realistic manner. Since it is a first-person narrative, the reader has to decide how reliable Sammy's version of events is, but...
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Sammy's motives for leaving his job at A&P are not entirely clear, even to him. The reason he gives to Lengel, the manager, is his discomfort at seeing the girls humiliated for coming into the...
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First, the post says that social conformity is your argument; however, the information provided in the post doesn't explain what the argument is about the story, social conformity, and/or the...
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John Updike's short story "A&P," is narrated in the first person by Sammy, a clerk at the grocery store. He observes the girls in minute detail but does not think about why they have come into...
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A quotation that says something about the benefits or the risks associated with nonconformity would be appropriate. Jack Kerouac said, "Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to...
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There are several social issues at work in "A&P" that one could write about in a literary essay of argument. A prominent issue that Updike weaves into the story is varying perspectives on...
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Sammy is the first-person narrator of "A & P," so the reader first has to decide whether to accept his version of events. This is a particularly exacting task since the story ends with Sammy...
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In the short story "A&P" by John Updike, a 19-year-old supermarket cashier named Sammy observes three girls entering the A&P where he works, dressed in nothing but bathing suits. The story...
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This story is narrated by a nineteen-year-old man named Sammy who works at a small-town grocery store. He is a first-person objective narrator, meaning that he is a participant in the story's...
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A connotation is a word that has two meanings: its literal interpretation and the cultural interpretation that it is given. Many phrases that we use today in our language have no literal meaning in...
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The detailed portrait of Queenie adds value to the story because she is the object of Sammy's infatuation. The excessive detail characterizes Sammy's male teenage mind and helps the reader to see...
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I would argue that the exposition in this story goes on for quite a bit longer than it does in most other stories. Sammy, the protagonist and narrator, experiences a conflict with his manager,...
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In my opinion, the main theme of this short story is individualism. It is a story about what happens when people try to do "their own thing" rather than doing what society expects them to do. In...
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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 place we see Sammy concerned with how people perceive him is in his pronouncement of quitting his job at the grocery store: The girls, and who'd blame them, are in a hurry to get out, so I say...
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In this story, Sammy decides to take a bold stance in defense of some girls wearing improper attire who have entered the grocery store where he works. When his manager tells them to come with their...
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A character analysis is something that breaks down and evaluates the specific traits of a literary character. This will include discussing what the character looks like, but a strong character...
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First, I think that this question needs to be moved to the Discussion board. I am sure you will receive many different initial reactions to Updike's story there. I must say that my first reaction...
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Your instructor has used an interesting "hook" to encourage you to examine whether John Updike's "A & P" meets his own criteria for a good short story. Updike is a masterful story teller, so,...
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The theme or moral lesson that the author is trying to express in the story A&P by John Updike is that we must be ready to face the music and accept consequences as a result of each and every...
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No, Sammy would not be characterized as a hero. His actions were foolish, actually, and immature. By quitting his job, he has made a huge mistake and he realizes at the end of the story that life...
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Well, one is the disparity between the vacationing, monied class to which Queenie and her entourage belong and to the resident, working class to which Sammy is a member. Sammy longs to not suffer...
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Sammy's worldview is more romantic than grounded; this could be a result of his youth, as he is only nineteen years old. Sammy has a romantic view of the world. From the moment the three girls come...
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"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" by John Updike is a coming of age story about a teenager named Sammy. He is a local in a resort town, from a family that is struggling financially--and therefore he works part time as 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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Sammy, the narrator, is a 19-year-old cashier at an A&P store in the Boston area, five miles from the nearest beach. Three young women walk into the store in bikinis and begin walking up and...
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There are quite a few questions being asked here. I believe that the first question is the main question. The second question actually provides two possible answers to the first question. Either of...
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One of the fascinating aspects of this story is the way in which it reveals the character of Sammy to us through how he looks at the world and perceives objects. It is important to remember that...
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"A&P" is told from Sammy's perspective, so the characterization is done indirectly. Readers have to infer things about Sammy through the way that he thinks, the things that he says, and the...
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We are never told this directly in the text. Rather, we have to take what the text tells us and use it to infer this about Sammy. It is the beginning of the story that you want to look at in order...
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"Sammy narrates this story in the first person. His voice is colloquial and intimate. His speech is informal, a factor that highlights his individuality and propensity to question...
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Sammy, the narrator of Updike's "A&P" is not untypical for a nineteen-year-old, for he is both cynical and romantic. He notes that A couple customers that had been heading for my slot begin...
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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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Sammy lives in a fantasy world. Like many young men, he is interested in the girls and their bodies. However, he also makes the impractical choice of standing up for the girls’ right to wear...
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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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"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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The first sentence of the second paragraph is another example of language that makes sense when comparing it to spoken English but isn't a great written sentence. It's a really long and choppy...
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Sammy quits his job to try to impress the young girls because he "defended" them. He was doing what I like to call "showing out," which means he was showing off. His...
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The fact that Sammy calls the people in the market “sheep” is an indication that he is getting fed up with his job. He is obviously more intelligent than the average grocery clerk and is probably...
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This story was first published in 1961, right at the verge of the social revolution that would occur in the 1960's. At the end of the story he has an epiphany about " how hard to world was going to...
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There are many possible angles to take in writing about John Updike's story "A & P." It all just depends on your opinion of the story and whether any particular aspect of it stands out in your...
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John Updike's short story, "A&P," is a slice-of-life tale about Sammy, the protagonist-narrator and teenage cashier in a New England grocery store. One day at work, three teenage girls come...
