Sammy watches each of the girls as they look around the store, but there is one that catches his attention right as they walk in. He is so busy staring at her that he makes the customer he is "ringing up" very mad at him. Sammy describes the young girl as a "chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft - looking can with those two crescents of white just under it..."(Updike, 734). He notices everything about the girl, even down to the fact that she does not have a tan line, so she must have just bought the bright green, two piece bathing suit. He also notices that she is very conscience of being a little over weight, because she "…fumbled with the cookies, but on second thought she put the packages back"(Updike, 735).
Instead they show praise towards her and her whiteness by buying white baby dolls, even for black girls. “The big, the special, the loving gift was always a big, blue-eyed Baby Doll….all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured.” Not only do the girls of this novel learn that whiteness is superior through the white baby dolls and the idealization of Shirley temple but adult women too have learned to despise their own color and learn as they grow that whiteness is the desired color. Whiteness is considered the cleaner color. When Pecola spills berries all over the clean white ladies house this
Judgment May Vary An underlying theme in “A&P” as well as “The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven” is none other than judgment. Sammy is a cashier in the story “A&P” and Victor is a Native American in “The Lone Ranger…” who struggles through his life trying to find his place of belonging in the world. Having previous experience as a cashier, the only entertainment seen in a work day comes from the customers shuffling around the store grabbing, dropping and sometimes stealing items. In Sammy’s case he saw all of the customers as “sheep” except for the three girls who walked in. And so begins the judgment with a woman who Sammy believes to be about fifty with nothing better to do than scold him for accidentally ringing up the same item twice.
Aspects of the way the story is written are important, but equally important, as we shall see, is the date of publication. The story revolves around a visit of three scantily clad young women to the A& P store where the narrator, Sammy, and his contemporary, Stokesie, work. From the very beginning of the story Sammy takes an appreciative interest in the physical attractive ness of the girls, describing them in detail. One, the slightly chubby one, is wearing a two-piece bathing suit and the most attractive of them all, whom Sammy dubs Queenie, has the straps of her bathing suit rolled down so that above her breasts you can see simply her bare skin and her shoulders and neck, leading up to her face. It is obvious from Sammy’s description that he finds Queenie’s appearance sexually alluring: With the straps pushed off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except just her, this clear bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light.
The girls were barefoot and wore their bathing suit, which is how they caught Sammy’s attention. Not because they were wearing the bathing suits but in the confidence the girl’s had while grocery shopping. The girls were “The kind of girls that other girls think are “Striking” and “Attractive.” (1111) Updike wants to let the reader know that the girls wanted the attention when he described what the girls were wearing and how they walked with confidence. Another event happens when the girls approach Sammy’s register. When they get to the front of the line they placed the item into Sammy’s hand.
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.
The character that I am diagnosing is the main character, Will Hunting. Will Hunting is a 20-year old janitor from South Boston. He had a rough childhood because of his abusive parents. He finds solitude by hanging out with his friends and drinking after his unfulfilling job is over for the day. Despite Will’s demeanor, he has an unbelievable intellect that allows him to skate by most of the time.
Actually, he cannot stand her at all but had to put up with her because she could afford to feed him and buy him clothes. Sarhan is always broke because he has to take care of his family back in the village. He has a strong sense of responsibility towards his family and so he needs to minimize his own spending so he can send his brothers back at home to school. Sarhan is opportunists so while he is living for free in the apartment with Safeya, he still keeps his eye open for a better opportunity that may come along. He sees Zohra in a grocery shop and like all the other men is amazed by her beauty.
Later, he finds this boy standing in the front of a shop, he seems sad and therefor he offers him to go back home with him. 1. person narrator is used, through the whole story. That gives the reader a stronger relationship to the narrator and this sad story. The narrator has gone through a lot through his life; he has grown up in a trailer park alone with his mother, we are never told where his father is. The narrator also has an uncle, who seems like an alcoholic small time crook.
Finding the information is about half of the problem. Overall, I learned that getting the best information and always keeping an open mind are very important things to be a good leader, and I plan to practice these at home, in my job and in school. Section Two: Your Personal Role Model / Leader When I was thinking about whom my role model is, the first person that came to my mind was my father. My father was a very hard working man, In India even as a young boy he would sell candy on the streets just to help my grandmother out. My father was one of eight kids and some nights they would have to go to sleep without any food.