John Updike's A&P is short story which issues great enjoyment to readers of all ages. Updike writes the story from a viewpoint of a younger, more contemporary person. ... Instead, Updike writes a short story which even a young reader can appreciate and enjoy. ... Updike makes him, however, an immature nineteen year old if we compare him to nineteen year olds today. ... (30) Overall, John Updike, did a very good job of bringing the reader into the story A&P and making them him feel like he has a first hand participation in the antics. ...

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In the classic short story "A & P", John Updike portrays a pessimistic view of the role of the individual in society. ... However, the views that Updike presents in "A & P" are not out-dated and still have relevance to today's society. ... Sammy "bets you could set off dynamite in an A & P and the people would by large keep reaching and checking oatmeal off their lists and muttering-(Updike, pg. 222). ... Through his description of the A & P, Updike shows the boredom of Sammy's job, " the cool of the A & P, under the fluorescent lights, against all those stacked packages checker-...

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John Updike's A & P is a vivid portrayal of the perils of growing up as seen through the eyes of a young grocery store clerk. ... Updike uses vivid verbal imagery to give the reader a clear image of every element of the story. ... In this story Updike uses vivid verbal imagery to give a clear image of every element of the story. Updike's description of the three girls gives such a clear image that they are easily pictured in the mind. ... In the story Updike also uses the element of conflict between Sammy and Lengel. ...

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"The Initiation" The short story "A & P" by John Updike involves a young narrator, Sammy, who attempts to make a heroic gesture upon three girls "in nothing but bathing suits" (Updike 12) by quitting his job. ... Sammy describes most of the customers in the A & P as animals (Peck). ... But I do" (Updike 16). ... Yet, he maintains some of that innocent humor when he leaves the A & P. ... When he leaves the A & P, he is between two worlds. ...

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In John Updike's short story "A & P", the protagonist, Sammy, is an adolescent boy whose roots come from the conservative and conventional small town working class, who dreams of branching out to the more elaborate, flashy and non-conformist life that he presumes the girls in swim suits live. ... Her father and the other men were standing around in ice-cream coats and bow ties and the women were in sandals picking up herring snacks on toothpicks off a big glass plate and they were all holding drinks the color of water with olives and sprigs of mint in them." (346) It's apparent that ...

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"A&P" By John Updike John Updike uses the persona of an immature teenage boy to illustrate an ambivalent attitude towards women and the growth into adulthood. ... Updike is able to relate this to his readers through a young, growing boy, Sam, who works at an A&P. Updike then tells about an incident in which Sam had been faced with that relates to his adolescent immaturity. When the incident is over, Sam has grown up Three young girls walk into the A&P, inappropriately dressed in bathing suits. ... In Updike's tale, "A&P", the persona of an immature teenage boy is used to illus...

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The A&P Chameleon In John Updike's "A&P", the main character Sammy, is developed through the use of setting. ... Although the physical setting of the grocery store is left more to the reader's imagination, Updike uses the vivid images of the other characters to illustrate the setting through Sammy's point of view. ... When Lengel mentions that the policy of the A&P is to have one's shoulders covered while shopping, Sammy notes "Policy is what the kingpins want. ... They are attractive young girls that he would rather be spending his time with than working at the A&P. ... A...

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A&P: A Philosophical Comparison Sammy's story is a coming of age story, not unlike Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in a modern light. ... (Updike) He knew these girls Anderson 2 were not sheep and an amusing new admiration for them came over him. ... (Updike) It is not such a bad thing though. ... Works Cited Updike, John. "A&P". ...

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"A & P", written by John Updike, tells the story of a nineteen year old checkout boy named Sammy, who suddenly quits his job after his boss, Mr. ... Updike weaves his theme past the obvious generation gap deep into the character contrasts that ultimately cause Sammy's own personality and values to surface and suddenly erupt to the point of no return, leaving him to face the consequences of his actions. It is a slow summer afternoon when three young, scantily clad girls come into the downtown A&P grocery. ... Sammy especially related to Updike's descriptive statement, "the girls ...

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John Updike, born in Pennsylvania in 1932, published his book of short fiction, The Same Door, and his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, in 1959. In the 1960's, 1970's, and early 1980's, Updike alternated successfully among novels, collections of stories, occasional verse, essays, and one play. ... A short story written in 1961 by Updike, A&P introduces readers to an adolescent who undergoes metamorphosis while working at the local grocery store. ... Sammy is a responsible young man with a respectable job at the local A&P grocery store. ... I enjoyed reading A&P and con...

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The story is set in an A&P supermarket in a town north of Boston, probably about the year 1960. As the plot unfolds, Sammy changes John Updike's short story "A&P" from being a thoughtless and sexist boy to being a young man who can make a decision, even though it might hurt him. ... He is a check-out clerk in the local A&P, where the boss, Lengel, is a friend of Sammy's parents. ... In "A&P," Sammy begins to mature. ... This is the lesson Sammy has begun to learn in John Updike's ...

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In "A&P" by John Updike, the main character, Sammy decides to quit his job. ... Sammy gets so bored with customers he starts comparing their actions to animals, "The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle" (Updike 202), " like scared pigs in chute"(Updike 204). Sammy gets so aggravated with a customer because she starts giving him trouble: "customer starts giving me hell" (Updike 201). This anger ultimately causes him to call this customer "cash-register-watchers" (Updike 201) and "a witch" (Updike 201).Every day Sammy hears the cas...

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The A&P John Updike uses Sammy's attitude toward the people and the town along with the setting of the dreary atmosphere of the A&P to exhibit his change from a young, immature boy to a man who is finally ready to experience the fruits of growing up. ... Updike uses two types of setting, beginning with a manufactured setting, the A&P. Sammy's job as a clerk at the A&P is of comfort and stability in a little, routine-oriented community just north of Boston. ...

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A&P "A & P by John Updike is a very descriptive and comical account of an adolescent's brief encounter with a group of three girls while working his daily shift. ... This makes it evident that working as an A&P cashier is not the most exciting of jobs. ... Updike contrasts them to the dull "checker-board green and cream-rubber-tile floor (469)."" ... And above that, the A&P is in the middle of the town. ... Updike again uses very funny but very true to life descriptions of where the girls emerge from around the store. ...

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"A&P" In John Updike's "A&P", a young boy by the name of Sammy works as a cashier in the A&P supermarket. ... Sammy's character leads him to the decision of quitting his job, and Updike's theme in the story A&P. ... The job at "A&P" he is working and his personality don't exactly mix. ...

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The short story "A&P" by John Updike starts in an A&P on a Thursday afternoon. (Updike) An A&P was a grocery store that was very popular in its day. ... Lingle is the antagonist and manager of the A&P. ... IN "A&P" by Updike, the setting is used to show how immature the characters are, create realism through details, and create atmosphere. ... Details in "A&P" are not hard to come by. ...

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In his short story "A & P" John Updike utilizes a 19-year-old male to show us how a boy gets one-step closer to adulthood. Sammy, an A & P checkout clerk, talks to the reader with first person narration. ... He describes three girls entering the A & P, setting the tone of the story. ... He is a simple checker at a small town A & P, not moving up in his job or down, simply stagnant. ... By the time Sammy leaves the A & P he finds the girls have left and he is alone. ...

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One can argue that in the short story, A&P, John Updike uses foreshadowing to hint towards the fact that it's expected for Sammy, the main character or protagonist, to quit his job by the end of the story. ... Updike is descriptive to portray an image to the reader of how Sammy sees these girls when they first walk in, and how he is dealing with the customer he seems to hate. ... Another example of this is when Updike writes, "The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle [] were pretty hilarious.... For example, "I bet you could set off dynamite in an A&P and the people would b...

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In both stories, "A&P" by John Updike, and "Lust" by Susan Minot, the main characters are experiencing conflicted but transitional periods in their lives. Sammy, the main character in "A&P" has a happy, analytical and self-assured personality that will eventually help him quit his job. ... "I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not" (Updike 606). ... Sammy realized the trouble he had caused himself, and now he would have plenty of time to think about his well-chosen decision of quitting his job at A&P as well as time to dream about "Queenie...

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Hi, everyone what is at least one example of something, which we know about the character that he/ she does not at first know? I think that Sammy deals with his felling more rather than of using his brain. He is different kind a person. First of all, he got so tense that he quit his job and than ...

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John Updike writes a short story "A&P" which is narrated by a 19 year old cashier that works in a local grocery store. Sammy is very uninterested in his job as checkout clerk; he is more focused on the people who come in and out than his main task at hand. Through Sammy's observations of the three g...

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In the story "A & P, written by John Updike, the main character is a nineteen year old grocery checker. The story takes place in an A & P grocery store, north of Boston, five miles from the beach. ... At the beginning of story "A&P", Sammy notices that three girls have proceeded into the store with nothing on except for there bathing suits. ...

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John Updike's short story "A&P", can be interpreted in several different ways. You can look deep into every detail of the short story or take it for only what is written, possibly leaving the reader with two completely opposite conclusions. The spin put on the story by the reader is really a way to...

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"A&P" Every story has a main character in which at some point in time has a crucial moment when an important decision must be made. ... A story written in 1961 by John Updike called "A&P," portrayed a young man leading the ordinary life as expected of an ordinary young man. ...

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It is also shown in "A & P," written by John Updike, through the eyes of a teenager named Sammy who seems to think using something else instead of his brain. ... Experience is gained in the same fashion in "A & P" by a cashier named Sammy. ... He decides that he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life working at an A&P competing for the store manager's position. ... (Updike 855). ... Although, Sammy sees "how hard the world would be hereafter,"(Updike 857) he figures what was done had to be done. ...

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