In the world full of oppression and restriction, many people lacking awareness or competence have gradually worn away, eroded by what the outside has imposed on them. However, at the same time, there often leave some courageous people who dare to challenge the intense dissatisfaction in their life. Therefore, in the end the eruption of their defiance breaks up as what can see in the story "A&P" written by John Updike and the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" adapted from the original book written by Kesey. Yet what really happens in their rebellion? Although the two protagonists are depicted in two different situations: Sammy in "A&P" is still a boy in his way of maturation, while McMurphy is a mature young man settled in a mental institution, both two are real heroes of society, who go against the existing unfair things. Their struggles in the two stories highlight the significance of their courageous revolt when they are boggled in their conflicts with the unsatisfactory realities in society and the values of holding their principle, even though they may fail in the end. .
A rite of initiation happens in the A&P supermarket when the nineteen-year-old boy, Sammy, makes up his decision to break up from his boring life and pick up his new life direction. To begin with, Sammy has the kind of dishwater job, in which he works, dilly-dally, burning his youth. As we can feel from the description, he dislikes the monotonous job so much as he calls the customers "sheep"(John Updike, 2) and the supermarket "pinball machine"(John Updike, 3). Then all of a sudden, the .
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emergence of three pretty sexy girls exerts a strong influence in Sammy's once boring working hours. The three young girls who are "in nothing but bathing suits"(John Updike, 1) attract almost all the workers in the A&P. However, unlike the two elder men Stockie and McMathon who just indulge themselves in their sensuous desires for the girls, Sammy, this half-boy and half-man creature, appreciates them and even adorns Queenie, one of the girls, as his ideal girl.
