Even with complete strangers Miss Schwartz is being taken advantage of. When she goes to buy her wedding dress the story says the salesgirl speaks “sarcastically.” Lena did not stand up for herself, instead she h kept her mouth shut. Besides the salesgirl speaking rudely she also is not helpful when Miss Schwartz needs help finding he perfect dress. This girl is being paid to offer suggestions and give advice to Miss Schwartz, so the employee needs to give Lena the respect she deserves. Miss Schwartz is a people pleaser, and she must learn to treat herself with dignity.
He chose to no longer be a part of something that discouraged uniqueness. Sammy accepted the girls’ need to conform and supported them all the way, even if it meant letting down his parents and his manager, who happened to be a family friend. In the story Sammy’s fantasies reveal that he is simply bored while at work. He is stuck in this rut of his life, and craves some sort of change. Living this lifestyle would drive anyone to want to rebel against authority just to spice things up a bit.
Throughout John Updike`s short story "A & P" the protagonist Sammy, a young 19 year old male, is constantly judging the cliental who walks into the grocery store, A& P. For example, when three girls walk into the store with nothing but their bathing suits; Sammy’s mind begins to be very active when he is judging the girls. As Sammy watched Quennie “buzz” over to her friends, it made his stomach (and who knows what else) rubs the inside of his apron (Updike 2). Sammy also observed the women in the store turn away when they noticed the girls almost as if they knew what would happen and were ashamed for young girls (Updike 2). At which point, Sammy views all the older, less attractive shoppers as “sheep” pushing their carts around in a herd, or as “house slaves in pin curlers” (Updike 2). Through the choice of words by the author in these references from the book, the reader is led to believe that women were generally portrayed as passive individuals, known to stay at home, cook for their husbands and care for the children while the men were active at work.
Emily Nguyen Mrs. DiTallo L.A. per 5 5 April 2012 A&P Cause and Effect Essay The interesting short story “A&P” by John Updike is about a teenage boy named Sammy. The story starts, when three girls come in the store in only their bathing suits and Sammy notices them. Sammy then he starts to analyze them until they came to checkout their item until Lengel, the manager, starts an argument with the girls. Sammy, for a strange reason defended them and finally quit and going out to the parking lot to find the girls, which is nowhere to found. In “A&P”, the circumstantial causes intertwine with Sammy’s “choice” causes to create effects which speak directly to the story’s theme.
Lengel is very conservative being he is a Sunday school teacher and as Sammy tells is also very observant. “Lengel’s pretty dreary, teaches Sunday school and the rest, but he doesn’t miss that much.” (89) Lengel’s external conflict is not only between himself and Sammy, it is also between himself and the three barely clothed girls. His conservative nature and Christian morals will not allow him to just let these girls make a habit out of wearing only a bathing suit into the grocery store. “’That makes no difference,” Lengel tells her, and I could see from the way his eyes went that he hadn’t noticed she was wearing a two piece before. “We want you decently dressed when you come in here.”’ (90) From this we can also infer that he is sort of bold.
He says the reason men do not help in the kitchen is because they learn everything they need to know in shop class which does not include cooking. Barry states that women believe that after women’s liberation
1.) Three appropriate actions taken by The Big Cheese staff: * As for every Food and Beverage Manager or Director, when an employee feels ill or under the weather sending them home is essential. Not having any type of sick employee or disease around the food product will lessen the risk of any customer obtaining sickness from the employee. * Even though Gypsy was looking out for the best of the customer and business, she cannot throw full plates of food in the kitchen. It is significantly unprofessional by acting the way she did by arguing to the point that the customers heard her and throwing the plate.
I am not skinny or glamorous and I don’t know that much about fashion but I’m smart. I learn fast and I work very hard” This quote emphasises Andy’s surplus of inner belonging and self-satisfaction. At first Andy believes that she will get accepted by her work ethic and diligence rather than her appearance but through constant humiliation from her workplace she is forced to change her attitudes and behaviours towards her appearance. Her colleagues do not make any effort to adumbrate their distaste in Andy’s appearance. “Do you have some hideous
He was not happy about how employees could not wait for the evening meeting to end since they were worried about their carpool. Additionally, the project manager talks about some employees who have programmed schedules. In other words, they were not willing to adjust their schedules to accommodate time for project work. For the project to be successful, flexibility is important. Employees should always be willing to adjust their schedules when the project manager needs them to adjust so
A&P was a little different read than the usual short stories because it didn’t talk about someone’s life or series of event, instead it talks about how one small mistake leads to downfall of a young boy’s life. Sammy who is a young boy as a cashier working at a neighborhood grocery store with Stokesie, his partner also as a cashier, finds himself in a position one day when he feels the urge of speaking up about something that he thinks is wrong but little did he know that his words and sudden action will only put him down and become a regret forever. While working on a regular sunny day Sammy notices that three girls had walked in to his store in bathing suits. The whole store pays attention to them including Sammy’s manager and his work partner but his manager notices that Sammy is showing a little too much interest in them. So, he walks up to them and tells them that next time they decide to walk in they should cover their shoulders meaning be in appropriate attire but Sammy with a young mind thinks differently and thinks that anyone should be able to shop how ever they want in whatever attire.