Analyzing Sammy's Changing Characters

The lifestyle that Sammy wants to live is similar to that of Queenie and her two friends who enter the A&P supermarket. Sammy asserts, “I slid right down her voice into her living room…the women were in sandals picking up herring snacks…they were all holding drinks the color of water with olives and sprigs of mint in them” (Updike 19). Sammy admiringly explains what he thinks the girls’ lifestyles are like. He specifically describes the types of food and drink being consumed to express the comfortable and pleasant lifestyle that the girls have. This type of lifestyle belongs to the upper classes of society. Sammy states, “She remembers her place, a place from which the crowd that runs A&P must look pretty crummy” (Updike 19). Sammy compares the girls’ lifestyles to his own and ultimately prefers their comfortable and classy lifestyle over his working at the A&P. He feels as though the girls are able to live carefree and is able to enjoy their summer because they don’t need to work summer jobs that they don’t want. Additionally, Sammy mentions that after he quit his job, he realized how hard life was going to be. He was not going to gain a lifestyle like Queenie and her friends automatically. Sammy would have to go to college and do a lot of hard work before being rewarded with an upper

To begin, this story takes place in New Jersey. The author introduces Sam who is dealing with his mother Sandra. His solution to this problem is to persuade his father to sue. The author explains that he wanted to move with his father. The author also introduces us to Phyllis who is Sam’s father wife, which is now sam’s stepmother. The author mostly focuses on Sam and his mother Sandra the relationship between the two. Such as the shouting, smoking, bringing in different boyfriends every week. Also about the letter that Sam wrote his mother regards of his decision. “Everything!The cooking, the cleaning,the shouting . Everything!”[Schwartz pg. 87]. This quote refers back to the article about his mother Sandra. The most important detail provided by the author in the beginning of the story are important because they demonstrate that Sam persuades his father to sue his mother so

young man’s life. While the customers of the store scorn the girls’ immodesty, a cashier, Sammy,

As Sammy observes, he thinks to himself, “policy is what the kingpins want. What the others want is juvenile delinquency.” (Approaching Literature 555) Those that make the rules, such as Lengel, demand they be followed and those who stand against them, like Queenie and her friends are dismissed as radicals. However, Sammy’s desire to gain independence is also influenced by mainstream culture, and the question of, how can a young man like Sammy ever shed the influence of cultural power and be his own independent man? - drives the story’s

Sammy proves throughout the story that he is not confident in his middle-class status and wants to be more like the rebellious girls. In the short story “A & P”, John Updike uses

Sammy began his grocery clerk glory days as a victim of his own parents' over watchfulness. His parents had known Lengel, the store manager, for years, and took it upon themselves to get Sammy a job. Perhaps his parents believed that doing Sammy's dirty work would somehow shelter Sammy from the so-called "real world," or perhaps they merely wanted the best for their son, and getting him a job was their way of giving Sammy what they felt he was due. Whatever his parents' motives were, the end result was somewhat of a loss of Sammy's independence. Given the circumstances surrounding the rest of the story, it is not unreasonable to assume that Sammy had felt somewhat dependent upon his parents and did not like that dependence at all. But he had never faced the right circumstance that may have potentially given him a reason, or an excuse, to break his ties with his parents and become truly independent. Lengel points out, "Sammy, you don't want to do this to your Mom and Dad . . . You'll feel this for the rest of your life" (Updike 411). Despite this warning, Sammy is more than willing to break the unwritten covenant he has with his parents and attempts

'''Gordon Samuels''' is a criminal [[defense attorney]] who orchestrated the murders of two undercover cops.

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“Before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you: is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die?” (Oliver 80-81). As of right now in this novel the main characters have just left a party and are driving home when all of a sudden they see a bright white light flash before them, and before they know it they hear glass shattering and the car is flipping. I am questioning whether or not Sam is alive and evaluating the scene of the crash, along with predicting that Sam’s friends will survive the car accident and will realize that being popular is not everything you need.

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