That's why when the manager Lengel shouts at the girls and tends to drive them out of A&P, Sammy bursts out the word "quit"(John Updike, 4) out of his respect and admiration for the girls. Although to the disappointment of Sammy, the three girls don't catch a glimpse of his exploit, his encounter with the three upper-class girls after all ignites his challenge against his dreary job and strengthens his determination to detach from his routine life. During his process of maturation, Sammy in the story "A&P" abruptly changes his perspective on himself and the world, holds to his stand, for the first time he acts as a brave rebel against the idle life in which men devote much time to "sizing up" women (John Updike, 3) and steps into a new more challenging world, however hard they may be.
In the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", the hero McMurphy rises up against the oppressive control of Nurse Ratchet and performs more like a rebel for the liberation of the inmates contained in the mental institution than a criminal he should be. As a gambler, a gold brick and a low-down person, McMurphy starts his revolutionary journey in the institution simply because he .
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dislikes the hard laboring in the work farm. However, when he gets to know the people and life in the institution, he has to accept the fact that the institution in the full charge of the cruel Nurse Ratchet is no better a place than the work farm. When a woman who is fond of controlling insane men meets a sane man who cherishes freedom and equality at will, there appear conflicts inevitably. With the story going on, the conflicts become more and more intensified. Quickly taking the lead of the inmates, McMurphy at the drop of a hat guides them to realize the unfair oppression rooted in the institution and assures them that many of them don't have a screw loose as they have been said to be, especially when he is informed that most inmates there are voluntarily committed there.