A crisis is a specific event in the plot that narrows the conflict. In “A&P,” the manager confronts the girls as they are checking out at Sammy’s register. Here the author enforces the concept of conforming to social norms by having the manager basically humiliate the girls for their actions. The fact that they are humiliated and hardly try to defend themselves then
As the girls leave the store in a hurry Sammy says to Lengel “I quit”. Lengle was surprised by Sammy quitting. Sammy defends himself by saying “You didn’t have to embarrass them” (20). Sammy thinks that Lengle could have handled the situation better than the way he did. When Lengle says to Sammy “You’ll feel this for the rest of your life” (20) and Sammy knows it’s true and knows that this moment will be a moment he looks back to all his life and reflect upon.
7. Does anything lead you to expect Sammy to make some gesture of sympathy for the three girls? What incident earlier in the story (before Sammy quits) seems a foreshadowing? Some type of gesture of sympathy is implied throughout the text from Sammy’s interest and appeal towards Queenie and the constant activity of the girls. The incident earlier in the story that seems a foreshadowing is the part where Sammy feels sorry for the girls after they were ridiculed by shoppers for the
Thi is not an accident, but a very symbolic gesture on the part of Steinbeck. She is not a woman, she is her husband's property. Our first meeting of Curley's Wife is ominous; George instantly views her as a sign of trouble. In chapter 2, shortly after checkin in with the boss, George and Lennie stumble upon the young woman, dressed in red, made up and wearing mules with red feathers. the color of her attire and the style of her hair and makeup suggest some sexuality, as well as a youthful desire to be found attractive.
In John Updike’s “A&P”, standing up for what he believed was right was all it took for Sammy to become an adult. As Sammy rang up the purchases of the everyday “sheep” (79) and “house-slaves” (79), he notices the “three girls in nothing but bathing suits” (77) that had come in. Like most hormonal, teenage boys would, he watched the pretty girls as they walked throughout the store, especially “Queenie” (79), who appeared to be the leader of the girls. He began to feel bad for them though when he realized his male coworkers were also “sizing up their joints” (79). After all, “they couldn’t help it” (79).
Each of the reactions to my deviant behavior of shopping out of another’s cart was met with anguish. Despite the items not being theirs until after they are paid for, many people are under the assumption that having the item in their cart gives them ownership of it. The reactions were negative due solely to their belief in personal possession of the unpaid for items. My evening of shopping out of other people’s carts gained me a great many negative reactions. My deviant behavior brought upon many dirty looks, some surprised looks, as well as aggression.
She wants to become her own person and begins to defy society. In the end the author portrays that men are pigs by saying they leave a mess and the job of a woman is to clean it up. This is the start of Cisneros showing defiance in “House on Mango Street”. In the chapter “My Name” the author shows how a woman defies her family and cultures by wishing to change her name. Often a person’s name has a history behind it.
Hopefully the audience will understand that Steinbeck's social criticism implies that he is using the book as a metaphor in order to make a point. For instance, he shows the way Curley's wife was treated in order to how show badly women were treated in many circumstances at that time. Throughout the novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck portrays women in a horrible manner; he shows them as unintelligent and unimportant figures. All of the women, including Curley's wife, Lennies Aunt Clara, Clara, Suzy and the women at Clara's bar are shown in this unintelligent and un respectful way. There are many quotes that show this in the book and also information that is understood from the book but not actually written by John Steinbeck.
It is easy to assume that Sammy is sometimes disrespectful to his parents from how he refers to the adults at the store. Sammy views the adults as “old, ugly, mean and stupid.” (Race) and it is evident by the comments he makes about them. Sammy also proves to be very judgmental of people. He judges the leader of the three girls when he said “she was the queen” (Updike 310) after seeing her in the lead of the others three girls. Sammy also judges the social class of “Queenie” by her voice and the herring snacks that she was buying.
“He also gives a detailed description of the supermarket's floor and knows of every event that occurs outside the store's front window” (Thompson, par.4), so we get an idea that Sammy has worked there for quite some time. His lack of respect for the people in the store, as well as his description of his surroundings, leads us to believe that he does not enjoy working there. Sammy is also judgmental of the girls who enter the store. He gives them all nicknames and pays close attention to their physical features as well, judging them as they walk through the store and comparing them to items found in the supermarket. By doing this, “Sammy suggests that they, like the commodities, are merely objects to be observed, handled, and used” (Thompson, par.