After the girls exit, Sammy is left feeling "how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter" (Updike 17). ... 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. ... Even though Sammy struggles to maintain the rebellious, juvenile delinquent character that up to this point he has portrayed, he soon realizes the error of his actions when he steps outside t...

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